Processing Photonic Colloidal Crystals for Technological Applications

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E87-C, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 274-282

  Meseguer, Francisco ^a   Míguez, Hernán ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Colloidal suspensions; Nanophotonics; Opals; Photonic crystals

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDS; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL DESIGN; PHOTONS; POLYCRYSTALS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; TOPOLOGY;

FACE CENTERED CUBIC (FCC) PACKING; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES;

EID: 1642338400     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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