Direct laser writing of three-dimensional photonic-crystal templates for telecommunications

Nature Materials

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 444-447

  Deubel, Markus ^a   Von Freymann, Georg ^a   Wegener, Martin ^b   Pereira, Suresh ^b   Busch, Kurt ^b,c   Soukoulis, Costas M ^d  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^d IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA TRANSFER; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ENERGY GAP; POLYMERIZATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BAND GAPS; POLYMER TEMPLATES; SCATTERING LOSSES;

CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE;

EID: 3042839181     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1155     Document Type: Article

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