Designing synthetic optical media: Photonic crystals

Acta Materialia

Volumn 51, Issue 19, 2003, Pages 5823-5835

  Johnson, Steven G ^a   Joannopoulos, J D ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Band gaps; Optical devices; Photonic crystals

Indexed keywords

ENERGY GAP; OPTICAL DEVICES; PHOTONS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

CRYSTALS;

EID: 0142029497     PISSN: 13596454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-6454(03)00464-6     Document Type: Article

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