Thin film opal photonic crystals : = (Photonische Kristalle aus dünnen Opal-Filmen) / von Torsten Maka. 2004
Content
- Introduction
- Photonic Crystals
- Concept of Photonic Crystals
- Electromagnetic waves in periodic media
- The macroscopic Maxwell equations
- The reciprocal lattice
- Influence of the lattice type on the existence of omnidirectional photonic band gaps
- The Plane Wave Expansion method
- The filling factor
- Basic diffraction properties in opals
- Diffraction resonances and Bragg’s law
- The refractive index
- Dispersion surfaces and photon focussing
- Dimensional aspects of Photonic Crystals
- One-dimensional Photonic Crystals
- Two-dimensional Photonic Crystals
- Three-dimensional Photonic Crystals
- Thin film Photonic Crystals
- Applications of Photonic Crystals
- Analytical techniques
- Spectroscopy
- The spectrometer
- Reflection and transmission spectroscopy
- Photoluminescence spectroscopy
- Raman spectroscopy
- Scanning electron microscopy
- Experimental set up
- Opal based Photonic Crystals
- Silica opals
- Opal polymer composites
- Polymeric thin film opals
- Inverted structures
- Optical diffraction in opals
- Reflectance of direct opals
- Fabry-Pérot oscillations
- Reflectance of inverted opals
- Band branching in thin film opals
- Band branching in inverted opals
- Polarisation dependence of Bragg reflection
- Conclusions
- Emission from opal Photonic Crystal structures
- Spectral redistribution of the emission intensity
- Changes of the emission rate
- Directionality of emission in SnS2 replicas
- Emission from CdTe loaded opal films
- Feasibility studies
- Metallo-dielectric opals.
- Photonic crystal pressure sensor
- Structuring of opal based thin film Photonic Crystals
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- List of Publications and Presentations arisen from this work
- Acknowledgements