Organic and Hybrid Photonic Crystals

This book provides a multidisciplinary perspective (ranging from chemistry to physics and biology) of the current research and applications of organic and hybrid photonic crystals. The authors detail the chemical and physical tools used to develop organic photonic crystals, explain methods for engineering new nano-structures, and propose novel physical phenomena or technological applications based on such materials. Organic and Hybrid Photonic Crystal lasers, sensors, photovoltaic devices and stimuli responsive devices are discussed.

Section 1: Introduction to Organic and Hybrid  Photonic Crystal Properties.- 1. Photonic crystals - an introductory survey.- 2. Organic opals: properties and applications.- 3. Biological Photonic Crystals.- Section 2: Growth and Properties.- 4. Polymer Multilayer by Spin Coating.- 5. Spherical Colloid Engineering.- 6. Self-Assembling Polymer Photonics.- 7. Co-extruded multilayer polymer films for photonic applications.- 8. Dry polymerization of functional thin films and multilayers by Chemical Vapor Deposition.- 9. Nano imprint Lithography: Toward Functional Photonic Crystals.- 10. Fabrication of photonic crystals using holographic lithography.- Section 3: Chemistry and Physics at Work.- 11. Strong coupling in organic and hybrid-semiconductor micro cavity structures.- 12. Plasmonic & Photonic Crystals.- 13. One-dimensional photonic crystals for light management in organic solar cells.- 14. New sensing strategies based on surface modes in photonic crystals.- 15. Hybrid-organic photonic structures for light emission modification.- 16. Plasmonic sensors on 2D ordered structures.- 17. Colloidal photonic crystals for active laser applications.- 18. Stimuli Responsive Self-organized Liquid Crystalline Nanostructures: From 1D to 3D Photonic Crystals.- 19. Gel-immobilized colloidal photonic crystals with tunable properties.- 20. Plasmonic nanostructures.- 21. Control of photon emission by photonic bandgap engineering in colloidal crystals.