Tunable optical properties of silicon-on-insulator photonic crystal slab structures

Journal of the European Optical Society

Volumn 4, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Tasolamprou, A C ^a   Bellini, B ^b   Zografopoulos, D C ^a   Kriezis, E E ^a   Beccherelli, R ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Liquid crystals; Photonic crystals; Silicon on insulator

Indexed keywords

EID: 68949172553     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19902573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2971/jeos.2009.09017     Document Type: Article

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