Reflectance of topologically disordered photonic-crystal films

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5733, Issue , 2005, Pages 308-315

  Vigneron, Jean Pol ^a   Lousse, Virginie ^a,b   Biró, László P ^c   Vértesy, Zofia ^b   Bálmt, Zsolt ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNICAL PHYSICS AND MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Hungary)

^d DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Biological; Disorder; Film; Photonic crystal

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CRYSTALS; FILMS; LIGHT REFLECTION; POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TOPOLOGY; WAVE FILTERS;

BIOLOGICAL; DISORDER; FILM SCATTERING; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

PHOTONS;

EID: 21844477307     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.588749     Document Type: Conference Paper

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