Over the last three decades, photonic crystals (PhCs) have attracted intense interests thanks
to their broad potential applications in optics and photonics. Generally, these structures can …

The electronic ground state of a periodic system is usually described in terms of extended
Bloch orbitals, but an alternative representation in terms of localized “Wannier functions” …

A new class of composite materials has emerged which provides a means to control and
manipulate light. These materials, known as photonic crystals, are periodic arrays of …

A new type of metallic electromagnetic structure has been developed that is characterized
by having high surface impedance. Although it is made of continuous metal, and conducts …

We present the first full band-structure calculations for periodic, elastic composites. For
transverse polarization of the vibrations we obtain a ''phononic''band gap which extends …

Self-assembling colloidal particles in the cubic diamond crystal structure could potentially be
used to make materials with a photonic bandgap,–. Such materials are beneficial because …

We discuss the validity of standard retrieval methods that assign bulk electromagnetic
properties, such as the electric permittivity ε and the magnetic permeability μ, from …

We describe a fully-vectorial, three-dimensional algorithm to compute the definite-frequency
eigenstates of Maxwell's equations in arbitrary periodic dielectric structures, including …

This is the first comprehensive textbook on the optical properties of photonic crystals. It deals
not only with the properties of the radiation modes inside the crystals but also with their …

We introduce a practical, new, face-centered-cubic dielectric structure which simultaneously
solves two of the outstanding problems in photonic band structure. In this new ''photonic …