Robust photonic band gap from tunable scatterers

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 84, Issue 13, 2000, Pages

  Zhang, W Y ^a,b   Lei, X Y ^a,b   Wang, Z L ^a,b   Zheng, D G ^a,c   Tam, W Y ^a   Chan, C T ^a   Sheng, Ping ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SHANGRAO NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN (FDTD); MULTIPLE SCATTERING TECHNIQUES (MST); PHOTONIC BAND GAPS (PBG); TUNABLE SCATTERERS; WAVE VECTORS;

COATINGS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LATTICE CONSTANTS; MICROWAVES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; VECTORS;

PHOTONS;

EID: 4143120304     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.2853     Document Type: Article

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