Major research challenges for materials science and technology include the design of tailor-
made materials with deliberately controlled and multifunctional performance attributes. In the …

Diffraction experiments with holographic gratings recorded in SiO 2 nanoparticle-polymer
composites have been carried out with slow neutrons. The influence of parameters such as …

Colloidal photonic crystals (PCs) possess iridescent and metallic structural color, making
them an attractive candidate for anticounterfeiting. However, traditional colloidal PC‐based …

We report on tests of holographically arranged grating-structures in nanoparticle-polymer
composites in the form of 100 μm thin free-standing films, ie, without sample containers or …

For the fabrication of periodic microstructures, a high-precision and highly efficient
polarization-controlled three-beam interference technology (PoTBI) has been developed …

Versatile and reversibly rapid responsive one-dimensional photonic crystals with a
diffraction efficiency of 97%, which consisted of uniformly 273±48 nm wide liquid crystal …

Flexible photonic crystals are attractive devices owing to their multifold tunable parameters
additionally introduced by soft substrates or by nanostructured, nano-doped, or nano …

Periodic micro and nano structures are required for a variety of different products in micro
optics, semiconductors and products with functional surfaces. Today the common approach …

We report on theoretical and experimental investigations of optical wave propagations in two-
dimensional photonic lattice structures formed in a holographic polymer-dispersed liquid …

In this paper, we investigated the effect of light driving force induced surface deformation on
azobenzene-containing polymers. The surface deformation is attributed to light-induced …