Bloch modes and evanescent modes of photonic crystals: Weak form solutions based on accurate interface triangulation

Crystals

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 14-44

  Saba, Matthias ^a   Schröder Turk, Gerd E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Band gap material; Band structure; Evanescent modes; Mesh representations; Photonic crystals; Reflectance; Single gyroid; Weak form solutions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84961292213     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734352     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/cryst5010014     Document Type: Article

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