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Proceedings of the All-Russian Conference with Elements of the Scientific School for the Youth "Opal-Like Structures" (St. Petersburg, Russia, May 12-14, 2010)

Polarization anisotropy of single crystal opal films

A. I. Plekhanov, V. P. Chubakov, P. A. Chubakov

Institute of Automation and Electrometry, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk

Abstract: Single-crystal opal films have been prepared by the moving-meniscus and gravitational sedimentation methods. It has been found using conoscopy and spectroscopic ellipsometry that these photonic crystal opal films possess birefringence so that the optical indicatrix is a three-axial ellipsoid. The indicatrix axis $\mathrm{N}_g$ is directed along the crystal growth axis, the axis $\mathrm{N}_m$ lies in the film plane and is orthogonal to the axis $\mathrm{N}_g$, and the axis $\mathrm{N}_p$ coincides with the normal to the (111) crystallographic plane, which corresponds to the triclinic system of the crystal.

 English version: Physics of the Solid State, 2011, 53:6, 1145–1151

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