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  • Title: Photonics of Template-Mediated Lattices of Colloidal Clusters.
    Author: Morozov KI, Leshansky AM.
    Journal: Langmuir; 2019 Mar 19; 35(11):3987-3991. PubMed ID: 30767537.
    Abstract:
    The recent progress in microfluidic microfabrication enables mass production of "colloidal molecules" with a preprogrammed geometry (e.g., dumbbells, tetrahedrons, etc.). Such colloids can be used as elementary building blocks in the fabrication of colloidal crystals with unique optical properties. Anisotropic clusters, however, cannot be readily assembled into regular lattices. In this paper, we study photonic properties of compact cubic templates of microdrops encapsulating complex "colloidal molecules". Because monodisperse droplets can be easily packed into dense cubic lattices and encapsulation techniques (e.g., using microfluidics) are well developed, such a material is experimentally feasible. The rationale behind such a methodology is that for a particular alignment of the encapsulated "colloidal molecules" (e.g., by applying an external magnetic or electric field), the resulting structures resemble a diamond lattice, which is known to exhibit a wide complete photonic band gap. The photonic properties of two cubic templates encapsulating dumbbells (symmetric and asymmetric) and tetrahedrons are investigated numerically. In particular, we show the emergence of the complete 3D band gap (∼8% wide for the dielectric contrast ε = 14) for symmetric dumbbells embedded within a face-centered cubic template and oriented along the space diagonal of the elementary cubic cell.
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