Engineering the refractive index of three-dimensional photonic crystals through multilayer deposition of cds films

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1033-1040

  Buso, Dario ^a,b   Elisa Nicoletti, ^a   Li, Jiafang ^a   Gu, Min ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CADMIUM SULFIDE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; LIGHT REFRACTION; MULTILAYER FILMS; PHOTONIC BAND GAP; PHOTONICS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REFRACTOMETERS;

CDS; CDS FILMS; CDS LAYER; CHEMICAL-BATH DEPOSITION; DEPOSITION PARAMETERS; EFFECTIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX; HETEROGENEOUS GROWTH; MULTILAYER DEPOSITIONS; NON-LINEARITY; ORMOCER; PHOTOCURABLE RESIST; PHOTONICS APPLICATIONS; SOFTWARE SIMULATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

CADMIUM DERIVATIVE; CADMIUM SULFIDE; SULFIDE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY;

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CRYSTALLIZATION; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SULFIDES;

EID: 75249103293     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.001033     Document Type: Article

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