Organic and Hybrid Photonic Crystals

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.

Davide Comoretto is a faculty member at the University of Genoa.