Photonic crystals

JD Joannopoulos, PR Villeneuve, S Fan - Solid State Communications, 1997‏ - Elsevier
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 …

Existence of a photonic gap in periodic dielectric structures

KM Ho, CT Chan, CM Soukoulis - Physical Review Letters, 1990‏ - APS
Using a plane-wave expansion method, we have solved Maxwell's equations for the
propagation of electromagnetic waves in a periodic lattice of dielectric spheres (dielectric …

Photonic band-gap structures

E Yablonovitch - Journal of the optical society of America B, 1993‏ - opg.optica.org
The analogy between electromagnetic wave propagation in multidimensionally periodic
structures and electron-wave propagation in real crystals has proven to be a fruitful one …

Photonic band structure: The face-centered-cubic case employing nonspherical atoms

E Yablonovitch, TJ Gmitter, KM Leung - Physical review letters, 1991‏ - APS
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 …

Theory of acoustic band structure of periodic elastic composites

MS Kushwaha, P Halevi, G Martinez, L Dobrzynski… - Physical Review B, 1994‏ - APS
We study an elastic composite described by the position-dependent mass density ρ (r), the
longitudinal speed of sound cl (r), and the transverse speed of sound ct (r). For a spatially …

Reconfigurable photonic crystals enabled by pressure-responsive shape-memory polymers

Y Fang, Y Ni, SY Leo, C Taylor, V Basile… - Nature …, 2015‏ - nature.com
Smart shape-memory polymers can memorize and recover their permanent shape in
response to an external stimulus (for example, heat). They have been extensively exploited …

Photonic bandgaps in periodic dielectric structures

PR Villeneuve, M Piche - Progress in quantum electronics, 1994‏ - Elsevier
Photonic bandgaps are defined as frequency intervals for which propagation of
electromagnetic waves is forbidden in all 4π steradians within a dielectric structure with a …

Photonic band structure of two-dimensional systems: The triangular lattice

M Plihal, AA Maradudin - Physical Review B, 1991‏ - APS
By the use of a position-dependent dielectric constant and the plane-wave method, we have
calculated the photonic band structure for electromagnetic waves in a structure consisting of …

Photonic crystals

E Yablonovitch - Journal of Modern Optics, 1994‏ - Taylor & Francis
In this paper, we review the early motivation for photonic crystal research which was derived
from the need for a photonic bandgap in quantum optics. This led to a series of experimental …

Electromagnetic wave propagation in periodic structures: Bloch wave solution of Maxwell's equations

Z Zhang, S Satpathy - Physical review letters, 1990‏ - APS
We examine the propagation of electromagnetic waves in periodic dielectric structures by
solving the vector Maxwell equations with the plane-wave method. Contrary to experimental …