Semiconductor Physics, Quantum Electronics & Optoelectronics. 2008. V. 11, N 4. P. 392-395.
https://doi.org/10.15407/spqeo11.04.392

Ordered carbon nanotubes and globular opals as a model of multiscaling photonic crystals
G. Dovbeshko1, O. Fesenko1, V. Moiseyenko2, V. Gorelik3, V. Boyko1 and V. Sobolev4

1Institute of Physics, NAS of Ukraine, 46, prospect Nauky, 03028 Kyiv, Ukraine
2Dnipropetrovsk National University, 72, prospect Gagarina, 49050 Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
3P.N. Lebedev Physics Institute Russian Academy of Sciences, 53, Leninsky prospect, Moscow 117924, Russia 4Technical Centre of NASU, 13, Pokrovskaya str., 04070 Kyiv, Ukraine

Abstract. Experimental data on carbon nanotube carpet and synthetic opals have been compared by visible, infrared spectroscopy, and electron microscopy. Spectral features of the objects under study in infrared region are registered. Three regions of abnormal behavior of reflectance and absorbance for carbon nanotube carpet and two regions for opals in the 7000-2000 cm -1 are observed in comparison with the separated nanotubes or SiO 2 globules in disordered states and/or condensed state. The spectroscopic features of the photonic crystals caused by their different microstructures at different length scales and basis for development of a proper model for light propagation through the photonic crystals in the IR region are presented for discussion.

Keywords: photonic crystal, opal, carpet of carbon nanotubes, IR spectra, phonon mode, Bragg scattering.

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