Spontaneous emission extraction and Purcell enhancement from thin-film 2-D photonic crystals

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 2096-2112

  Boroditsky, Misha ^a   Vrijen, Rutger ^a   Krauss, Thomas F ^b   Coccioli, Roberto ^a   Bhat, Raj ^c   Yablonovitch, Eli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c Corning Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; LIGHT SCATTERING; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM PHOSPHIDE; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; THIN FILMS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PURCELL EFFECT;

OPTICAL FILMS;

EID: 0033322075     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.803000     Document Type: Article

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