Highly ordered, dense and continuous ZnO inverse opal (ZnO-IO) films with different air
sphere sizes have been successfully prepared by a metal salt-based sol–gel infiltration …

Highly ordered porous ZnO inverse opal (ZnO-IO) was manufactured via an auto-forced
impregnation approach using self-assembled polystyrene (PS) spheres as colloidal crystal …

Oxide inverse opals (IOs) with their high surface area and open porosity are promising
candidates for catalyst support applications. Supports with confined mesoporous domains …

The slow-photon effect of Pt/TiO2–SiO2 inverse opal on photocatalytic nonoxidative
coupling of methane was explored regarding the cavity size and filming treatment. The …

PMMA opal crystal was prepared by a simple hybrid method, which includes sedimentation,
meniscus formation and evaporation. We investigated three surfaces of this crystal by angle …

Inverted zinc oxide photonic crystal structures were fabricated from polystyrene sphere
(PSS) template using the sol–gel solution of ZnO by spin-coating method. It is easily able to …

Spontaneous emission by an excited molecule strongly depends upon the available density
of states into which the molecule can decay. In a photonic crystal, the allowed local density …

The fabrication of photonic crystal heterostructures is important for the applications in the
fields of integrated photonic crystal chips, multi-frequency optical Bragg filters or mirrors …

Photonic crystals have very interesting features in their angle-resolved spectral response,
originating from the periodic arrangement of dielectric constant and the consequent …

Photonic crystal heterostructures containing two materials and/or two lattice constants are
synthesized using the colloids of polystyrene and polymethyl methacrylate by a self …