Photonic band gaps with layer‐by‐layer double‐etched structures

Photonic band gaps with layer-by-layer double-etched structures

Periodic layer-by-layer dielectric structures with full three-dimensional photonic band gaps have been designed and fabricated. In contrast to previous layer-by-layer structures the rods in each successive layer are at an angle of 70.5° to each other, achieved by etching both sides of a silicon wafer. Photonic band-structure calculations are utilized to optimize the photonic band gap by varying...

Photonic band-gap structures

The analogy between electromagnetic wave propagation in multidimensionally periodic structures and electronwave propagation in real crystals has proven to be a fruitful one. Initial efforts were motivated by the prospect of a photonic band gap, a frequency band in three-dimensional dielectric structures in which electromagnetic waves are forbidden irrespective of the propagation direction in sp...

Creation of partial band gaps in anisotropic photonic-band-gap structures

Band Gaps of Diamond Structured Photonic Crystals

In a three dimensional photonic crystal, an artificially formed dielectric structure, periodic along three different axes, when electromagnetic waves interact they periodically modulate the dielectric constant. A photonic band gap may form in these directions prohibiting the propagation of photons for energies that lie within the gap. Under certain conditions, there will be regions of forbidden...

Band Gaps of Diamond Structured Photonic Crystals

In a three dimensional photonic crystal, an artificially formed dielectric structure, periodic along three different axes, when electromagnetic waves interact they periodically modulate the dielectric constant. A photonic band gap may form in these directions prohibiting the propagation of photons for energies that lie within the gap. Under certain conditions, there will be regions of forbidden...