Applications of the layer-KKR method to photonic crystals

Optics Express

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 197-202

  Modinos, A ^a   Stefanou, N ^b   Yannopapas, V ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; COLLOIDS; CRYSTAL LATTICES; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; VECTORS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORY; MULTIPLE SCATTERING; PLANE-WAVE METHOD; WAVEVECTORS;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 0002933440     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.8.000197     Document Type: Article

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