Resonant absorption in semiconductor nanowires and nanowire arrays: Relating leaky waveguide modes to Bloch photonic crystal modes

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 116, Issue 15, 2014, Pages

  Fountaine, Katherine T ^a   Whitney, William S ^a,b   Atwater, Harry A ^a,b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC DEVICES; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; NANOWIRES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; QUANTUM THEORY; RED SHIFT; DISPERSIONS; WAVEGUIDES;

DISPERSION RELATIONS; EIGENVALUE EQUATIONS; ILLUMINATION ANGLE; INFINITE DIELECTRIC CYLINDERS; LEAKY WAVEGUIDES; RESONANT ABSORPTION; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOWIRE; UNIFIED FRAMEWORK;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 84908199226     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: 10897550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4898758     Document Type: Article

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