Large-scale synthesis of a silicon photonic crystal with a complete three-dimensional bandgap near 1.5 micrometres

Nature

Volumn 405, Issue 6785, 2000, Pages 437-440

  Blanco, Alvaro ^a,b,c   Chomski, Emmanuel ^a   Grabtchak, Serguel ^a   Ibisate, Marta ^b,c   John, Sajeev ^a   Leonard, Stephen W ^a   Lopez, Cefe ^b,c   Meseguer, Francisco ^b,c   Miguez, Hernan ^b,c   Mondla, Jessica P ^a   Ozin, Geoffrey A ^a   Toader, Ovidiu ^a   Van Driel, Henry M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE CIENCIA DE MATERIALES DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICON; SILICON DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; LIQUID CRYSTAL; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNTHESIS; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0034713259     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35013024     Document Type: Article

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