Figure 10
From: Self-assembled organic and polymer photonic crystals for laser applications
Schematic illustration of a polymer colloidal crystal-laser (CC-L) cavity for a flexible laser device. A light-emitting planar defect containing a fluorescent Rh dye is sandwiched between a pair of CC films of polystyrene particles stabilized by an elastic PDMS matrix. The right-hand picture is a cross-sectional scanning electron microscopy image of the magnified light-emitting planar defect between the CC films. The scale bar in this scanning electron microscopy image represents 2 μm. Reproduced with permission from Furumi et al.87 and Furumi et al.93
