Cherenkov effect as a probe of photonic nanostructures

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 14, 2003, Pages

  Garcia de Abajo F J ^a   Pattantyus Abraham, A G ^b   Zabala, N ^a,c   Rivacoba, A ^a,c   Wolf, M O ^b   Echenique, P M ^a,c  

^a DONOSTIA INTERNATIONAL PHYSICS CENTER DIPC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; BAND STRUCTURE; CALCULATIONS; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; PHOTONS; POROUS MATERIALS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CHERENKOV EFFECT; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL BAND; PHOTONIC DENSITY OF STATE; PHOTONIC NANOSTRUCTURE; POROUS ALUMINA FILM; TWO-DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC CRYSTAL;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 0242593723     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.143902     Document Type: Article

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