Regensburg 2004 – scientific programme
Parts | Days | Selection | Search | Downloads | Help
HL: Halbleiterphysik
HL 20: Photonische Kristalle IV
HL 20.6: Talk
Tuesday, March 9, 2004, 16:30–16:45, H17
Metal-Dielectric Photonic Crystals from Gold Coated opals — •Andrei Susha1, Paul Miclea2, Clivia Sotomayor Torres2, Sergei Romanov2, and Frank Caruso3 — 1Dept. of Physics, University of Munich, 80799, Germany — 2Inst. of Materials Science, Dept. of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of Wuppertal, 42097, Germany — 3Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia
The promise of metal-dielectric (MD) opals is to be photonic crystals (PhC) with wide and robust photonic bandgap (PBG). To prepare films of MD opals, the latex spheres were coated by 5nm Au nanoparticles (NP). The angular-resolved reflectance spectroscopy in the visible and near-infrared ranges, the surface diffraction and light scattering were used to study their PBG.
The surface plasmon resonance of Au NPs changes in opals from the single peak to the set of peaks in correspondence to the shape of NCs aggregates. The diffraction resonance in Au-opals evolves away from the dielectric-type behaviour, when it overlaps the plasmon resonance. Increase of the Au content up to 50 wt. emerging bands with unusual angular dispersion. Experimental data are discussed in the light of theory predictions.