在乙醇水溶液中组装三维胶体光子晶体薄膜

近几年来，用垂直沉积法制备胶体晶体得到了人们的广泛关注。用乙醇水溶液为溶剂，用垂直沉积法制备了二氧化硅胶体晶体薄膜。用这种方法一次制备的样品厚度可达20微米以上，并且将较大微球组装成了有序性较好的胶体晶体薄膜。用扫描电镜（SEM）和光学方法检测了样品的质量和厚度。

Self-assembling three-dimensional colloidal photonic crystal multilayers from aqueous ethanol mixture solutions

Vertical deposition technique to fabricate thin film solid artificial opals is becoming widely used. In the present work, we report our research on solvent modification and its effect on the quality of colloidal crystals. We used aqueous ethanol mixture solution to replace the ethanol solution, and used the vertical deposition technique to pack the spherical colloids into close-packed arrays. High quality samples can be prepared with thickness up to 20μm in one step. Furthermore, large spheres (diameters greater than 500nm) were successfully crystallized. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and optical methods were used to measure sample thickness and uniformity. The number of layers was calculated from the spectral separation of the Fabry--Perot fringes.