Tuning stop band of soft opal film by deformation for strain sensing applications

Hiroshi Fudouzi; Tsutomu Sawada

doi:10.1117/12.685668

18 October 2006 Tuning stop band of soft opal film by deformation for strain sensing applications

Hiroshi Fudouzi, Tsutomu Sawada

Proceedings Volume 6369, Photonic Crystals and Photonic Crystal Fibers for Sensing Applications II; 63690D (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.685668
Event: Optics East 2006, 2006, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Abstract

This paper describes an elastic colloidal crystal, soft opal, with tunable stop band and its potential application for mechanical strain sensing. A poly-dimethylsiloxane, PDMS, rubber sheet was coated with a thin layer of the soft opal. In the layer, polystyrene, PS, submicron particles were cubic-closely packed, CCP, and among the particles filled with PDMS elastomer. We design the array of CCP (111) planes selectively diffracts light in visible wavelength. The wavelength, i.e. photonic stop band, was reversibly tuned by tensile strain. As the PDMS sheet was stretched in horizontal direction, the film becomes compress in vertical direction. As a result, the lattice distance of CCP (111) planes decreased and the stop band shifted to shorter wavelengths. As released the mechanical strain on the PDMS sheet, the stop band completely returned to the initial wavelength. The PDMS sheet also displays reversible change of the structural color during elastic deformation. The potential application is a simple stress sensor enables visual judgment of the intensity of tensioning.

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Hiroshi Fudouzi and Tsutomu Sawada "Tuning stop band of soft opal film by deformation for strain sensing applications", Proc. SPIE 6369, Photonic Crystals and Photonic Crystal Fibers for Sensing Applications II, 63690D (18 October 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.685668

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