Photonic crystal heterostructures, like their semiconductor quantum electronic counterparts,
generate complex function from simple, well-understood building blocks. They have led to …

Biopolymers offer vast potential for renewable and sustainable devices. While nature
mastered the use of biopolymers to create highly complex 3D structures and optimized their …

Transfer-matrix methods adopting a plane-wave basis have been routinely used to calculate
the scattering of electromagnetic waves by general multilayer gratings and photonic crystal …

Reduced Bloch mode expansion (RBME) is presented for fast periodic media band structure
calculations. The expansion employs a natural basis composed of a selected reduced set of …

The partial or complete confinement of waves in an open system is omnipresent in nature
and in wave-based materials and technology. Here, we theoretically analyze and …

In this work, we propose a novel compact bio-sensing platform based on defected photonic
crystal waveguide for cancerous blood detection. The introduction of the defect layer in the …

We discuss density of states functions for photonic crystals, in the context of the two-
dimensional problem for arrays of cylinders of arbitrary cross section. We introduce the …

In this work, we propose novel structures of one-dimensional ternary planar photonic
crystals (1D-TPPC) consisting of periodic unit cells of dispersive materials. The transfer …

A method for the computation of the band structure of two-dimensional photonic crystals is
presented. It is well suited for crystals including materials with arbitrary frequency-dependent …

Our goal in this study is to design an efficient sensor to detect the fat volume in commercial
milk. We used a one-dimensional binary photonic crystal to design the sensor and the …