Nanowire-based tunable photonic crystals

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 26, 2008, Pages 21682-21691

  Rehammar, R ^a   Kinaret, J M ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON NANOFIBERS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; NANOWIRES; OPTICAL LATTICES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; YARN;

ACTUATION VOLTAGES; CARBON NANOFIBRES; PERIODIC PATTERN; TECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS; TUNABLE PHOTONIC CRYSTAL; TWO-DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; VARYING REFRACTIVE INDEX; VISIBLE FREQUENCIES;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 58149117818     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.021682     Document Type: Article

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