Acoustic excitations in a self-assembled block copolymer photonic crystal

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 10, 2003, Pages

  Urbas, Augustine M ^a   Thomas, Edwin L ^a   Kriegs, Hartmut ^b   Fytas, George ^b,c   Penciu, Raluca S ^c   Economou, Lefteris N ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; BAND STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL MICROSTRUCTURE; LIGHT SCATTERING; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PHONONS; POLYOLEFINS; SELF ASSEMBLY; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TOLUENE;

ACOUSTIC EXCITATIONS; ACOUSTIC LIKE PHONONS; HIGH RESOLUTION BRILLOUIN LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTIC LIKE PHONONS; POLYSTYRENE BETA ISOPRENE; SELF ASSEMBLED BLOCK COPOLYMER PHOTONIC CRYSTAL;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS;

EID: 0037627659     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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