Issue 33, 2015
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Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Electrically responsive photonic crystals: a review

Luca Nucara,*ab   Francesco Greco*b  and  Virgilio Mattoli*b  

* Corresponding authors

a The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Viale Rinaldo Piaggio 34, 56025 Pontedera (PI), Italy
E-mail: luca.nucara@sssup.it

b Center for Micro-BioRobotics@SSSA, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Viale Rinaldo Piaggio 34, 56025 Pontedera (PI), Italy
E-mail: francesco.greco@iit.it, virgilio.mattoli@iit.it

Abstract

Tunable photonic crystals (TPCs) represent an important class of intelligent materials, which can be used as optically active components and as functional technology to change an object's colour. Among these smart structures, electrically responsive photonic crystals are the most promising for real technological applications. Up to now, to transform the electrical stimulus into an optical response several strategies have been adopted that can be classified into (1) electrochemical processes, (2) reorientation of liquid crystal molecules, (3) electrophoretic organization of colloidal suspension and (4) indirect electrically induced modification of the photonic structures. In this review article, these approaches are systematically summarized and analysed with a particular emphasis on the chemistry of materials.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C5TC00773A
Article type
Review Article
Submitted
19 Mar 2015
Accepted
14 Jul 2015
First published
15 Jul 2015

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2015,3, 8449-8467

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Electrically responsive photonic crystals: a review

L. Nucara, F. Greco and V. Mattoli, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2015, 3, 8449 DOI: 10.1039/C5TC00773A

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