3C09 液晶浸透人工オパール及び反転オパールの光学特性と外場効果(フォトニクス・光デバイス)

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We have made synthetic film opals using sedimentation or self-assembly on a meniscus of colloidal suspension of SiO_2 spheres and polystyrene spheres in submicron diameters. We have also fabricated a polymer inverted opal (PIO) and titan dioxide inverted opal (TIO) by using a synthetic opal as a template. Nematic, smectic, and ferroelectric liquid crystals have been infiltrated into these three-dimensional periodic structures. These systems responded optically to external fields and can be expected as a prototype tunable photonic crystal.