High-energy angle resolved reflection spectroscopy on three-dimensional photonic crystals of self-organized polymeric nanospheres

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 897-907

  Schutzmann, S ^a   Venditti, I ^b   Prosposito, P ^a   Casalboni, M ^a   Russo, M V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; NANOSPHERES; SPECTROSCOPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

BRAGG DIFFRACTION; POLYMERIC NANOSPHERES;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

NANOSPHERE; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; REFRACTOMETRY; SPECTROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIBER OPTICS; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSPHERES; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYMERS; REFRACTOMETRY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 38849153687     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.000897     Document Type: Article

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