Simulations of wave propagation and disorder in 3D non-close-packed colloidal photonic crystals with low refractive index contrast

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 7101-7107

  Glushko, O ^a   Meisels, R ^a   Kuchar, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILICA; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

AQUEOUS MEDIUM; ARTIFICIAL OPALS; BCC LATTICES; BCC STRUCTURE; CHARGED COLLOIDAL PARTICLES; COLLOIDAL PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; FABRICATED STRUCTURES; FINITE SIZE EFFECT; GROWTH PROCESS; LOW REFRACTIVE INDEX; MULTIPLE SCATTERING METHOD; PLANE WAVE EXPANSION METHOD; PROPAGATION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; REFLECTION SPECTRA; REPULSIVE INTERACTIONS; SILICA SPHERE;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

SILICON DIOXIDE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; OPTICS; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; COLLOIDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SILICON DIOXIDE;

EID: 77950290872     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.007101     Document Type: Article

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