Investigations of properties of opal-like photonic crystals using combined methods

摘要

Weproposeatechniquethatcombinesatomicforcemicroscopy,opticalspectrophotometryanddiffractionmethodforcharacterizationofphotoniccrystals.Thesematerialsarepromisingforthecreationofvariousdevices,aswellasfortheobservationofneweffectsduetotheiruniqueproperties.Photoniccrystalsweresynthesizedbyself-assemblyofcolloidalsilicaparticleswithlowdeviationinsize.Itisshownthatthedevelopedtechniqueallowstoincreasetheaccuracyofdeterminingtheparametersofthephotoniccrystal...