Dataset of the manuscript: Predictive design to determine optimal absorber placement in colloidal photonic crystals

This data publication is based on the metadata and datasets underlying the manuscript "Predictive design to determine optimal absorber placement in colloidal photonic crystals". The Data is roughly organized by the figure of appearance.

Figure 1 contained no result data

Figure "Figure 2" contains:

Simulated and experimental reflectance spectra of bare PS colloidal crystal and CIELab color coordinates of simulated bare PS colloidal crystal.

Figure "Figure 3+4" contains:

Data for particle based and layer based designs for chroma optimization according to Eq. 2

convergence history J(steps)

Optimized design absorber distributions (average of layers)

CIELab color coordinates

Spectra

CIELab color coordinates and Chroma of all predictive designs sorted by threshold L value according to Eq. 3 + comparative designs: bottom absorber, top absorber, homogeneous.

Figure "Figure 5" contains:

Chemdraw File containing chemical structures

Pendant drop surface tension measurements 

Surface pressure increase on Langmuir-Blodgett trough

Figure "Figure 6" contains:

SEM images of mono- and multilayers labeled in accordance to design and composition

Figure "Figure 7+8" contains:

Photographs of fabricated multilayers

Homogeneous designs labeled in accordance to composition

Layered designs labeled in accordance to design type (XBA: bottom absorber with X absorbing numbers; XTA: bottom absorber with X absorbing numbers; Ld_XX: predictive design with L threshold of XX)

Spectra of all samples including their error determined from 2 measurements

Average spectra of all designs (averaged from all samples of that design) including their error estimated using gaussian error propagation

Color data of all samples calculated from spectra

CIELab coordinates and Chroma

xyz values

RGB values

Figure "Figure 9" contains:

Optimized design absorber distributions, spectra and CIELab color coordinates and chroma for colloidal crystals of varying primary particle size