Self-assembly route for photonic crystals with a bandgap in the visible region

Nature Materials

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 202-205

  Hynninen, Antti Pekka ^a,b   Thijssen, Job H J ^b   Vermolen, Esther C M ^b   Dijkstra, Marjolein ^b   Van Blaaderen, Alfons ^b  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ENERGY GAP; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; SELF ASSEMBLY;

BINARY COLLOIDAL DISPERSIONS; COLLOIDAL ANALOGUE; LAVES PHASE; VISIBLE REGION;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 33847647917     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1841     Document Type: Article

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