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Fabrication of SbSI Photonic Crystals

A. Starczewska^a, P. Szperlich^a, M. Nowak^a, I. Bednarczyk^b, J. Bodzenta^a, J. Szala^b
^aInstitute of Physics - Center for Science and Education, Silesian University of Technology, Bolesława Krzywoustego 2, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland
^bDepartment of Materials Science, Silesian University of Technology, Z. Krasińskiego 8, 40-019 Katowice, Poland

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Semiconducting ferroelectric antimony sulfoiodide (SbSI) photonic crystals were fabricated. The SiO₂ nanospheres were synthesized and gravity sedimented to obtain opal matrices. These opals were infiltrated with melted SbSI and etched in HF acid to produce inverted SbSI opals.

DOI: 10.12693/APhysPolA.126.1118
PACS numbers: 42.70.Qs, 77.84.-s, 78.40.Fy