Assembly of optical-scale dumbbells into dense photonic crystals

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 6695-6700

  Forster, Jason D ^a   Park, Jin Gyu ^a   Mittal, Manish ^b,c   Noh, Heeso ^a   Schreck, Carl F ^a   O'Hern, Corey S ^a   Cao, Hui ^a   Furst, Eric M ^b,c   Dufresne, Eric R ^a,d  

^a Yale University   (United States)

^b University of Delaware   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

anisotropic particles; field assisted assembly; photonic crystal; self assembly; structural color

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC PARTICLES; CRYSTALLINE PACKING; EXTERNAL ELECTRIC FIELD; EXTERNAL FIELDS; FIELD-ASSISTED ASSEMBLY; HARD PARTICLES; HIGH CONCENTRATION; LONG RANGE ORDERS; NONSPHERICAL PARTICLE; NOVEL STRUCTURES; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; ORIENTATIONAL ORDERS; PACKING FRACTIONS; SELF-ASSEMBLE; SOLVENT EVAPORATION; SPHERICAL PARTICLE; STRONG CONFINEMENT; STRUCTURAL COLOR;

ANISOTROPY; ASPECT RATIO; BIREFRINGENCE; COLOR; CRYSTALS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; EXPERIMENTS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; PHOTONIC BAND GAP; SELF ASSEMBLY;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COLOR; CONFORMATION; ELECTRICITY; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; LIQUID CRYSTAL; PHOTON;

ANISOTROPY; COLOR; ELECTRICITY; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; OPTICAL PROCESSES; PHOTONS;

EID: 80052071660     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn202227f     Document Type: Article

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