Ultra-high-Q photonic double-heterostructure nanocavity

Nature Materials

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 207-210

  Song, Bong Shik ^a   Noda, Susumu ^a   Asano, Takashi ^a   Akahane, Yoshihiro ^a,b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRODYNAMICS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC); LATTICE CONSTANTS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

BRAGG REFLECTION; CAVITY QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS; ELECTRIC FIELD DISTRIBUTION; PHOTON LEAKAGE; PHOTONIC NANOCAVITIES; QUANTUM INFORMATION;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 14744289272     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1320     Document Type: Article

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