Defect states and commensurability in dual-period AlxGa 1-xAs photonic crystal waveguides

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 333031-333034

  Bristow, A D ^a   Whittaker, D M ^a   Astratov, V N ^a,b   Skolnick, M S ^a   Tahraoui, A ^a,c   Krauss, T F ^c   Hopkinson, M ^a   Croucher, M P ^a   Gehring, G A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

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ALUMINUM; ARSENIC; GALLIUM;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DISPERSION; ENERGY; OPTICS; PERIODICITY; PHOTON; SEMICONDUCTOR; SPECTRUM; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 0345170009     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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