The modulation of luminescence is essential because unwanted spontaneous‐emission
modes have a negative effect on the performance of luminescence‐based photonic devices …

Photonic crystals have proven their potential and are nowadays a familiar concept. They
have been approached from many scientific and technological flanks. Among the many …

Colloidal crystal-templating methods have been used to prepare inverse opal photonic
crystals of silica, mercaptopropyl-functionalized silica, titania, and zirconia. Ordered arrays of …

Inverse opals or three-dimensionally ordered macroporous (3DOM) materials, prepared by
colloidal crystal templating (CCT) methods, possess distinctive structural features that are …

This review discusses strategies for the synthesis of three-dimensionally ordered
macroporous (3DOM) solids (inverse opals) by colloidal crystal templating. Compositions of …

Photonic crystals (PhCs) have set up a new trend in optical materials thanks to their potential
to control the propagation of light in the linear and nonlinear regimes. These properties can …

We present a formalism for the description of fluorescence from optically active materials
embedded in a photonic crystal structure possessing a photonic band gap or pseudogap. An …

We made large, highly ordered structures consisting of crystals of macropores in titania
(TiO2), by template-assisted growth. The crystals were characterized by synchrotron small …

Publisher Summary Atoms commonly do not act as isolated objects, but rather are open
quantum systems, as they interact with the environment. Typically, this environment is …

Ultrafast tuning of the band edge of a two-dimensional silicon/air photonic crystal is
demonstrated near a wavelength of 1.9 μ m. Changes in the silicon refractive index are …