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In this chapter, regular and inverse synthetic opals are examined experimentally by infiltrating them with CdSe quantum dots (QDs). Confocal microscopy measurements in which we track the infiltration of QDs inside the regular and inverse opals show indications of focusing of light emitted by QDs, which can be due to negative refraction occurring at the opal–glass interface. The formation of a focus can be an indication of the left-handed behavior of these synthetic opals in the [111] direction in its higher photonic band, above the photonic band gap (PBG). This result can be very promising because, until now, left-handed behavior has not been demonstrated in 3D photonic crystals in the visible region of light. This result was made possible due to the use of infiltrated QDs as internal light sources inside the porous photonic crystal, which appears to be a very useful technique for the study of other negative-index materials (NIM) effects.
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Moussa, R., Kuznetsov, A., Neiser, E., Zakhidov, A. (2010). Search for Negative Refraction in the Visible Region of Light by Fluorescent Microscopy of Quantum Dots Infiltrated into Regular and Inverse Synthetic Opals. In: Wang, Z., Neogi, A. (eds) Nanoscale Photonics and Optoelectronics. Lecture Notes in Nanoscale Science and Technology, vol 9. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7587-4_4
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