Electrically tunable silicon 2-D photonic bandgap structures

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1527-1532

  Haurylau, Mikhail ^a,b   Anderson, Sean P ^a,c   Marshall, Kenneth L ^d   Fauchet, Philippe M ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b University of Rochester   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Electro optic material; Field screening; Liquid crystals; Photonic bandgap (PBG); Silicon

Indexed keywords

ELECTRO OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTONIC BANDGAP (PBG);

BAND STRUCTURE; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SWITCHING; TUNING;

ELECTROOPTICAL MATERIALS;

EID: 33845657292     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2006.884084     Document Type: Article

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