Photonic Crystals

A Materials Science Educational Kit available from the Education & Outreach program of the UC San Diego MRSEC

What is in the kit?

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How to use it?

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How is it made?

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User’s Manual: Download a .pdf file of the detailed user guide for this kit <under development>pdf download

How can I get involved?

If you would like to participate in hands-on laboratory research activities, we run Summer Schools in Silicon Nanotechnology, Engineered Living Materials, Predictive Self-Assembly, and Energy Storage Systems. These introduce high school, undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate trainees to the research elements, the background, and safety procedures needed to work with the relevant materials. The four schools, called RIMSE (Research Immersion in Materials Science and Engineering), are run by the UC San Diego MRSEC center.


The UC San Diego MRSEC is an NSF-funded UC San Diego Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, dedicated to science, engineering, education, and outreach related to materials science.

supported by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) through the UC San Diego Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (UCSD MRSEC), grant # DMR-2011924