Endowing Zeolite LTA Superballs with the Ability to Manipulate Light in Multiple Ways

Advances in zeolites research emerging from interdisciplinary efforts have opened new opportunities beyond conventional applications. Colloids drive much current research owing to their distinct collective behaviors, but so far, using zeolites as a colloidal building block to construct ordered superstructures remains unexplored. Herein we show that self-assembly of colloidal zeolite LTA superball (ZAS) by tilted-angle sedimentation forms macroscopic films with micro-mesoporosity and 3D long-range periodicity featuring a photonic band gap (PBG) that is tunable through the superball geometry and responds reversibly to chemical vapors. Remarkably, self-assembly of ZAS at elevated temperature forms 3D chiral photonic crystals that enable negative circular dichroism, selective reflection of right-handed circularly polarized (CP) light and left-handed CP luminescence based on PBG. We present a novel class of functional colloids and zeolite-based photonic crystals with the ability to manipulate light in several ways.     

梯度结构胶体光子晶体的制备及光子禁带调节

以改进的对流自组装方法制备层数可控的胶体光子晶体, 并通过各向同性氧等离子体(O₂ Plasma)刻蚀构造出梯度结构, 进一步通过金(Au)及无定形硅(Si)的可控沉积调节梯度结构胶体光子晶体的光子禁带, 并将该梯度结构用于罗丹明B的荧光发射增强.     

胶体晶体微球及其生物医学应用

光子晶体(PhCs)是由单分散纳米粒子周期性排列形成的材料,具有光子禁带,频率落在光子禁带内的光被禁止传播,这个特性激起了研究者对其制备和应用的研究热情。然而,一般的光子晶体材料都具有角度有偏性质,限制了其在宽视角光学材料和设备上的应用。近几年有一系列围绕球形胶体光子晶体材料的研究成果问世,由于球形的对称性,球形胶体晶体的衍射峰不会随着光的入射角变化而发生变化,从而拓宽了胶体晶体的应用范围。随着微流控技术被用于制备液滴模板,球形胶体晶体的制备取得了巨大的进步。微流控技术不仅保证了液滴模板的单分散性,还增加了胶体晶体微球的结构与功能的多样性。胶体晶体微球这些特有的性质,可以很好地将光子晶体材料与编码、非标记检测、细胞培养以及载药等生物医学领域连接起来,为其应用提供了广阔的前景。本文总结了球形光子晶体的研究进展,包括球形光子晶体的设计、制备及其生物医学应用,最后,对球形光子晶体未来的发展方向作了展望。     

Analysis on Band Gaps of MCM-41 Type of Materials

The concept and analysis method of photonic crystals and band gaps are introduced into one-dimenslonal (1D) ordered mesoporous materials. MCM-41 type of materials are treated theoretically as photonie crystals. The formation of band gaps is exhibited and confirmed by a calculation of transfer matrix technique. PBG was found around 9-42 nm in soft X-ray region. The photonie band-gap was predicted to be dependent on incident direction, pore size and lattice constant. The mesoporous materials with different pore sizes and different lattice constants have different band-gap widths.     

胶体自组装法形成光子带隙材料

光子带隙晶体使人们可以有效地控制和操纵光子,但是构建光子晶体,尤其是近红外及可见光区域的光子晶体是一个困难的工作,它对材料提出了很高的要求.本文从化学的角度,利用自组装方法,对胶体晶体和反蛋白石等类光子带隙材料包括半导体、金属、金属氧化物、聚合物、染料等进行较全面的介绍,同时介绍了如何从这些材料获得光子带隙.     

Recent advances in spherical photonic crystals: Generation and applications in optics

Spherical photonic crystals (PCs), generated by assembly of monodisperse colloidal nanospheres in a spherical confined geometry, attract great attention recently owing to their potential applications in the fields of displays, sensors, optoelectronic devices, and others. Compared to their conventional film or bulk counterparts, the optical stop band of the spherical PCs is independent of the rotation under illumination of the surface of a fixed incident angle of the light, broadening their applications. In this paper, we will review recent advances in the field of spherical PCs including design, preparation and potential applications. Various preparation strategies for spherical PCs, including solvent-evaporation induced crystallization method, microfluidic-assisted approach, and others are outlined. Their applications based on the unique optical properties (such as photonic band gaps and structural colors) for sensing and displaying are then presented, followed by the perspective of this emerging field.     

光子晶体的制备及应用

光子晶体（PC）是具有光子带隙的周期性电介质结构，频率落在光子带隙中的光将被禁止传播。本文对光子晶体的能带结构、带隙的产生、制备方法及应用作了简要的介绍，重点介绍了光子晶体的制备技术及其在光电领域中的应用前景。     

光子晶体的分析化学应用研究新进展

光子晶体具有规则的堆积结构、纳米级别的孔径和新颖的光学性质,在工程、物理、化学以及生物学等研究中均有重要的研究与开发价值。本文从分析化学应用研究角度对其进行了审视,综述了最近5年多以来光子晶体在传感与分离分析方法发展中应用的最新进展。     

Three-dimensional quantum photonic crystals and quantum photonic glasses

The structure and optical properties of quantum-dot photonic crystals (quantytes) were studied. Such crystals have the so-called band gaps, which leads to a strong reflection of electromagnetic waves from the crystal surface. It was shown that in certain spectral regions the refractive index has a negative sign, and the group velocity of electromagnetic waves essentially decreases. The applications of quantytes as optical information recording and rewriting devices, negative refractive optical elements, selective mirrors, narrowband filters, and others were discussed.     

Tunable optical stop band of silica shell photonic crystals

In this study, optical stop band of three-dimensional silica shell photonic crystals is tuned by adjusting inner diameter and shell thickness of hollow silica spheres. The silica shell photonic crystals are fabricated by sintering crystalline arrays, which are assembled from polystyrene/silica core–shell spheres by an improved vertical deposition method. The inner diameter and the shell thickness are controlled by diameter of polystyrene spheres and concentration of tetraethoxysilane. The results of transmission spectra show that there is an evident red shift of optical stop band as the inner diameter and the shell thickness increase. The red shift of optical stop band is due to variations in the inter-planar spacing and the effective refractive index of silica shell photonic crystals, which result from the variations of the inner diameter and the shell thickness of hollow silica spheres.     

High effective sensors based on photonic crystals

Photonic crystals have been extensively studied as high effective sensors for environmental monitoring and chemical and biological detections. This paper reviews recent achievements on photonic crystal sensors. Especially, the band gap responsiveness and the ability in amplifying spontaneous emission are demonstrated in the reported photonic crystal monitors/sensors. They are of great importance for optical monitors/sensors visualized by the naked eye and sensors based on fluorescence applications. The photonic crystal sensors are promising for low-cost and high effective sensors and detection methods, although challenges still exist in practical applications.     

三维光子晶体的制备

三维光子晶体作为一种光子带隙材料在光学器件、化学生物传感以及信息传输和存储等方面具有广泛的潜在应用价值。自1987年三维光子晶体的概念被提出以来,科学家们一直致力于在实验室用不同的手段合成不同材料和不同结构的光子晶体。本文综述了近年来出现的一些三维光子晶体制备方法,大致分为3类：“自上而下法”（top-down method）、“自下而上法”（bottom-up method）和模板辅助法（template-assisted method）,并详细阐述了每种方法的代表性工作、适用范围以及各自的优缺点。     

Photoswitching properties of photonic band gap material containing azo-polymer liquid crystal

A photochemically tunable photonic crystal was prepared by infiltration of the polymer liquid crystal (LC) having azo-chromophores in a SiO₂ inverse opal structure. The SiO₂ inverse opal film infiltrated with the polymer LC reflected a light corresponding to the periodicity as well as the refractive indices of the inverse opal structure. Linearly polarized light irradiation caused the shift of the reflection band to longer wavelength more than 15 nm. This is caused by the formation of uniaxially anisotropic molecular orientation of the polymer LC. The switched state was stable under interior light, and reversible switching of the reflection band can be achieved by the linearly and circularly polarized light irradiation. This photoswitching property will be suitable not only for various optical materials, but also for introduction of defects in the photonic crystals.     

光子晶体的制备与应用进展

光子晶体概念的提出到现在已有20多年,由于其特有的带隙和缺陷结构可实现对光子传播的控制,与传统的基于半导体晶体的电子技术相比更具优势,是未来光子计算机和光子通讯技术研发的核心。近年来,基于新材料、新方法制备的具有复杂结构的光子晶体不断涌现,其应用范围也从较早的波导、光开关、反射镜拓展到传感器、超棱镜、微透镜、太阳能电池、增强LED发光、光存储、生物芯片、仿生等新兴领域。本文结合了最新的研究状况,探讨了光子晶体的制备与应用进展。     

Tuning of Photonic band gap via combined effect of electric and optical fields in a blue phase liquid crystal composite

ABSTRACT

Blue phase liquid crystals are soft 3D photonic crystals in which the liquid crystal molecules self-assemble to form a cubic structure with lattice spacing of a few hundred nanometers resulting in selective reflection of colours in the visible spectrum. The corresponding wavelength or the ‘photonic band gap’ can be tuned using various external stimuli such as thermal, electric, magnetic and optical fields. Here, we report efficient tuning of photonic band gap by utilising the combination of electric and optical fields in a blue phase liquid crystalline system. The studies indicate that the chirality of the medium has a direct bearing on the direction of the wavelength shift and the extent of the photonic band gap tunability. More importantly, the synergistic effect of the two fields helps in reversible tuning of the band gap.     

Optical properties and photonic density of states in one-dimensional and three-dimensional liquid-crystalline photonic crystals

ABSTRACT

Complex optical investigations were performed in one-dimensional (cholesteric) and three-dimensional (Blue Phase II) liquid-crystalline photonic crystals. Spectra of optical transmission and luminescence in the range of the photonic stop band contain information about the local anisotropy, characteristics of the photonic stop band, photonic density of states. We determine the photonic density of states in one-dimensional and three-dimensional liquid-crystalline photonic crystals employing measurements of polarised luminescence. The width of the photonic band gap, density of states and the optical characteristics related to the density of states essentially change with temperature in one-dimensional cholesteric photonic crystal. Drastic transformation of the density of states was found at the transition from one-dimensional to three-dimensional (Blue Phase II) photonic crystal. The results of our investigations demonstrate the possibility to employ the applied method for various types of photonic structures.     

三维SiO2欧泊模板溶剂热法制备硫化锌光子晶体

以单分散二氧化硅微球在重力场下自组装得到的三维有序欧泊(opal)为模板，采用溶剂热法在模板空隙内生长ZnS晶体，从而制备高质量的硫化锌基光子晶体. 通过X射线衍射(XRD)和Raman光谱证明ZnS晶体为闪锌矿结构且晶体质量较好，并对其生长机理进行了讨论. 通过场发射扫描电子显微镜(FESEM)和紫外-可见分光光度计对所合成的ZnS/opal复合物与ZnS反欧泊结构进行了表征，结果表明两种结构都保持了欧泊三维有序性，并且在Г-L方向(垂直于(111)方向)上出现了布拉格衍射峰，说明其具有良好的光子晶体特性.     

流动控制沉积法制备PMMA叠层光子晶体薄膜及其光学性能研究

采用流动控制沉积法, 通过调控泵速和聚甲基丙烯酸甲酯(PMMA)胶体微球溶液的浓度, 制备出微球排列高度有序且薄膜紧密附着于基底的高质量光子晶体薄膜. 获得了制备高质量PMMA光子晶体薄膜的组装条件范围, 发现在该条件范围内, 当泵速或胶体微球溶液浓度一定时, PMMA光子晶体薄膜的厚度随胶体微球溶液浓度的增加或泵速的降低而增加. 研究了组装条件对PMMA光子晶体薄膜光学性能的影响, 发现光子禁带位置随光子晶体薄膜厚度增加或减少而红移或蓝移. 在此基础上, 控制组装条件得到了不同尺寸微球堆叠而成的叠层光子晶体薄膜, 并研究了其光学性能的变化规律. 结果显示, 叠层光子晶体薄膜的光子禁带峰为各层叠层光子晶体禁带峰的简单叠加, 且峰强度受光入射角方向影响.     

ZnO光子晶体的制备和光学特征

通过制备过程中严格分离晶核的形成和生长两步骤, 成功获取了直径一致的单分散ZnO胶体球, 并通过控制晶核的数量来调节胶体球大小. 利用扫描电子显微镜和X射线衍射仪对其进行了结构和成分表征. 通过加热条件下的重力场自组装, 把ZnO单分散胶体球的浓缩液滴到140 ℃下的各种不同的基底上, 随着溶剂蒸发, 胶体球自组装成光子晶体, 最后测量了光子晶体的光透过率, 胶体球直径为220、250 nm的光子晶体分别具有对应着中心波长为460、540 nm的光子带隙.