Photonic Crystals for Show Business

Dear Colleagues,

People like beautiful images. Multicolor images and movies can be obtained with the use of photonic crystals. This is the reason for the development of advanced materials with photonic stop bands for show. Bright examples are natural and artificial opals. Additionally, photonic crystals can be fabricated as tunable materials; thus their images can be changed following the external conditions. Artificial opals, Bragg reflectors, and microcavities can be doped with light-emitting ions, quantum dots, and nanocrystals. In this case artificial opals, for example, can give a simultaneous compilation of the effects of iridescence and luminescence, sometimes very impressive, unpredictable, and unrepeatable.

This issue would like to attract material scientists, chemists, and physicists on the one side, and engineers of show effects on the other side, to develop technologies of multicolor images for shows. Beautiful images based on the effects of self-formation, light scattering, interference, and luminescence can compete with rainbows and other unique effects that we can observe shortly and from time to time only.

The methods of synthesizing the artificially prepared samples and their natural photographs (not drawn with a computer) will attract young scientists in their professional education in physics and chemistry. Thus the Issue can contribute to attractive and popular features of research.

It is very important for the authors to have at least one or more color photographs of the original experimental sample.

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Synthesis and images of the photonic crystals;
• All kinds of visible luminescence in photonic crystals and other optically anisotropic matrices;
• Images of natural photonic crystals modified with all kinds of luminescence species;
• Images obtained with the use of upconversion and downconversion;
• Luminescence of dyes and other species from photonic crystals and gels.

Prof. Dr. Nikolai Gaponenko
Prof. Dr. Guanying Chen
Guest Editors

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• photonic crystals
• luminescence
• synthesis of photonic crystals