Chirped 3D photonic crystals with stop bands that change continuously (see Figure) or in well-defined steps with position are fabricated here. Two simple methods, involving the assembly of either highly charged polystyrene beads (for continuous stop bands) or electrically neutral polystyrene beads of various sizes (for stepped stop bands), are employed to achieve this.
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Gates et al. (2000) studied this question.