Multiple scattering theory and its application to photonic band gap systems consisting of coated spheres

Optics Express

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 203-208

  Zhang, Weiyi ^a,b   Chan, C T ^a   Sheng, Ping ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GREEN'S FUNCTION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LIGHT SCATTERING; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; VECTORS; VOLUME FRACTION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORY; MULTIPLE SCATTERING (MS) THEORY; PHOTONIC BAND GAPS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 0006107370     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.8.000203     Document Type: Article

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