Abstract:A self-assemlby technique which relies on capillary forces to organiz polystyrene colloidal was used to fabricate colloidal crystal multilayers.Crystalline quality and thickness of the film were determined using scaning electron microscopy (SEM) and the optical properties of the film were evaluated using UV-visilbe spectrometer. The results show that the colloidal crystals are in FCC structure.The transmission spectra also show that the band gap of the fabricated colloidal crystal locates in the visible region. By analyzing the photonic crystal polystyrene samples fabricated under different conditions such as particle size of colloidal particles, solution concentration, the basal angle and environmental temperature, the factors influencing the width and depth of the photonic band gap are summarized.