Valley photonic crystals

Superparamagnetic Photonic Crystals

tion. Conversely, a semi-rigid, optimized acentric organization results in coherent second harmonic emission at the supramolecular level, the corresponding intensity from the dendrimer solution being almost proportional to Nmonomerábmonomerñ. The Nmonomer dependence assumes a linear additive model, whereby the individual sub-units follow an interaction-free oriented gas behavior. We have, there...

Three-Dimensional Photonic Crystals

Principle Investigators: Georg von Freymann and Martin Wegener CFN-Financed Scientists: C. Becker (3/4 BAT IIa, 4 months), Markus Deubel (3/4 BAT IIa, 9 months), Martin Hermatschweiler (3/4 BAT IIa, 14.5 months), Nina Meinzer (3/4 BAT IIa, 1 month), Daniel Meisel (3/4 BAT IIa, 5.5 months), Michael S. Rill (3/4 BAT IIa, 32 months), Isabelle Staude (3/4 BAT IIa, 14 months) On average, this corres...

Nonreciprocal magnetic photonic crystals.

We study band dispersion relations omega(k-->) of a photonic crystal with at least one of the constitutive components being a magnetically ordered material. It is shown that by proper spatial arrangement of magnetic and dielectric components one can construct a magnetic photonic crystal with strong spectral asymmetry (nonreciprocity) omega(k-->) not equal omega(-k-->). The spectral asymmetry, i...

III-nitride photonic crystals

Mechanically Tunable Photonic Crystals

The next frontier in photonic crystal research may be to achieve dynamic tunability that allows real-time, on-demand control of the photonic band structure. Recently, researchers have been working on a new strategy for achieving this goal—by applying mechanical force. This approach can produce much greater tunability than is possible with electro-optic materials and may greatly expand the usefu...