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Direct control of the optical path length of each layer inside anodic alumina produces a high quality photonic crystal.

Photonic crystals based on titanium oxide are promising for optoelectronic applications, for example as components of solar cells and photodetectors. These materials attract great research attention because of the high refractive index of TiO2. One of the promising routes to prepare photonic crystals based on titanium oxide is titanium anodizing at periodically changing voltage or current. However, precise control of the photonic band gap position in anodic titania films is a challenge. To solve this problem, systematic data on the effective refractive index of the porous anodic titanium oxide are required. In this research, we determine quantitatively the dependence of the effective refractive index of porous anodic titanium oxide on the anodizing regime and develop a model which allows one to predict and, therefore, control photonic band gap position in the visible spectrum range with an accuracy better than 98.5%. The prospects of anodic titania photonic crystals implementation as refractive index sensors are demonstrated.

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Hard-magnetic plate-like nanoparticles of SrFe 12 O 19 were synthesised hydrothermally. The particles, fixed in a polymer, exhibited a coercivity in the range 0.9-1.8 kOe, and the saturation magnetization values reached 64 emu g À1 . Electrostatically stabilized aqueous colloidal solutions of the plate-like particles with average thickness of 5-8 nm and average diameter of 30-80 nm were prepared. The nanoparticles readily oriented when applying a weak magnetic field as low as a few Oe, and due to the linear dichroism phenomena a strong change in the optical transmittance of the solution took place. The extinction coefficient ratio for the perpendicular and the parallel light's electric field vector relative to the magnetic field direction was found to be up to 4.5. The experimental results were compared with a theoretical model, in which the optical absorption of the nanoparticles was calculated from the polarizability of oblate ellipsoids.