Self-alignment of liquid crystals in three-dimensional photonic crystals

2006 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefano Gottardo ◽  
Matteo Burresi ◽  
Francesco Geobaldo ◽  
Luca Pallavidino ◽  
Fabrizio Giorgis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystals ◽  
Photonic Crystals ◽  
Three Dimensional

Two- and three-dimensional photonic crystals made of macroporous silicon and liquid crystals

2003 ◽  
Vol 83 (15) ◽  
pp. 3036-3038 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guido Mertens ◽  
Thorsten Röder ◽  
Heinrich Matthias ◽  
Heinrich Marsmann ◽  
Heinz-Siegfried R. Kitzerow ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystals ◽  
Photonic Crystals ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Macroporous Silicon

scholarly journals Blue Phase Liquid Crystals with Tailored Crystal Orientation for Photonic Applications

Symmetry ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 1584
Author(s):  
SeongYong Cho ◽  
Masanori Ozaki
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystals ◽  
Photonic Crystals ◽  
Self Assembly ◽  
Crystal Orientation ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Optical Characteristics ◽  
Crystal Plane ◽  
Potential Applications ◽  
Blue Phase ◽  
Control Light

Blue phase (BP) liquid crystals, which self-assemble into soft three-dimensional (3D) photonic crystals, have attracted enormous research interest due to their ability to control light and potential photonic applications. BPs have long been known as optically isotropic materials, but recent works have revealed that achieving on-demand 3D orientation of BP crystals is necessary to obtain improved electro-optical performance and tailored optical characteristics. Various approaches have been proposed to precisely manipulate the crystal orientation of BPs on a substrate, through the assistance of external stimuli and directing self-assembly processes. Here, we discuss the various orientation-controlling technologies of BP crystals, with their mechanisms, advantages, drawbacks, and promising applications. This review first focuses on technologies to achieve the uniform crystal plane orientation of BPs on a substrate. Further, we review a strategy to control the azimuthal orientation of BPs along predesigned directions with a uniform crystal plane, allowing the 3D orientation to be uniquely defined on a substrate. The potential applications such as volume holograms are also discussed with their operation principle. This review provides significant advances in 3D photonic crystals and gives a huge potential for intelligent photonic devices with tailored optical characteristics.

Other topics

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ted Janssen ◽  
Gervais Chapuis ◽  
Marc de Boissieu
Keyword(s):  
Photonic Crystals ◽  
Crystal Morphology ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Icosahedral Quasicrystal ◽  
Crystal Surfaces ◽  
Decagonal Quasicrystal ◽  
System A ◽  
Fundamental Law ◽  
Quasiperiodic Systems ◽  
Aperiodic Crystals

The law of rational indices to describe crystal faces was one of the most fundamental law of crystallography and is strongly linked to the three-dimensional periodicity of solids. This chapter describes how this fundamental law has to be revised and generalized in order to include the structures of aperiodic crystals. The generalization consists in using for each face a number of integers, with the number corresponding to the rank of the structure, that is, the number of integer indices necessary to characterize each of the diffracted intensities generated by the aperiodic system. A series of examples including incommensurate multiferroics, icosahedral crystals, and decagonal quaiscrystals illustrates this topic. Aperiodicity is also encountered in surfaces where the same generalization can be applied. The chapter discusses aperiodic crystal morphology, including icosahedral quasicrystal morphology, decagonal quasicrystal morphology, and aperiodic crystal surfaces; magnetic quasiperiodic systems; aperiodic photonic crystals; mesoscopic quasicrystals, and the mineral calaverite.

scholarly journals Fabrication of three-dimensional photonic crystals with multilayer photolithography

2005 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 2370 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peng Yao ◽  
Garrett J. Schneider ◽  
Dennis W. Prather ◽  
Eric D. Wetzel ◽  
Daniel J. O'Brien
Keyword(s):  
Photonic Crystals ◽  
Three Dimensional

Optical tuning of three-dimensional photonic crystals fabricated by femtosecond direct writing

2005 ◽  
Vol 87 (9) ◽  
pp. 091117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis McPhail ◽  
Martin Straub ◽  
Min Gu
Keyword(s):  
Photonic Crystals ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Direct Writing
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