The effect of interfacial roughness on the normal incidence bandgap of one-dimensional photonic crystals

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 21, 2005, Pages 8380-8389

  Maskaly, Karlene Rosera ^a   Carter, W Craig ^a   Averitt, Richard D ^b   Maxwell, James L ^b  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; PHOTONS;

FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN (FDTD) SIMULATIONS; INTERFACIAL ROUGHNESS; PHOTONIC BANDGAPS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 26844563403     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.008380     Document Type: Article

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