The plasmonic crystal, with its ability to direct light
like a photonic crystal, along with its sub-wavelength, metamaterial - like size, in effect hybridizes the two concepts.
Not exact matches
They arranged
photonic crystals in a woodpile -
like stack, filling the gaps between the
crystals with varying amounts of a polymer to control the refractive index of the metamaterial.
The lattice of interlocking bars, called a
photonic crystal, acts
like a mirror to prevent light of a particular frequency caught in the cavities from escaping.
A thin 3D
photonic crystal with a diamond -
like nanostructure is illuminated by white light from any incident direction (black arrow).
Like metamaterials,
photonic crystals are made of many identical cells.
«Usually, electromagnetically induced transparencies in more widely known systems
like atomic gases,
photonic crystals and metamaterials require tuning a laser's frequencies to match a physical system.