Transmission and diffraction by photonic colloidal crystals

Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Volumn 8, Issue 47, 1996, Pages 9503-9507

  Vos, Willem L ^a   Megens, Mischa ^a   Van Kats, Carlos M ^a   Bösecke, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; CALCULATIONS; CRYSTAL LATTICES; CRYSTALS; DIFFRACTION; ENERGY GAP; LIGHT; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; VOLUME FRACTION;

PHOTONIC COLLOIDAL CRYSTALS; SYNCHROTRON SMALL ANGLE X RAY SCATTERING;

COLLOIDS;

EID: 0030284049     PISSN: 09538984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/8/47/052     Document Type: Article

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