Lotsch and her team have now developed
photonic crystals based on nanosheets of phosphatoantimonic acid.
For example,
photonic crystals based on this design could be used to make large - volume single - mode laser devices.
Not exact matches
A team led by Eli Yablonovitch of Bellcore, the research arm of the American regional telephone companies
based in Redbank, New Jersey, made the first
photonic crystal last year by drilling holes in material that is transparent to microwaves.
EPFL scientists have now fabricated and experimentally tested a silicon -
based «
photonic crystal nanocavity» (PCN) that requires an unprecedentedly low amount of energy to operate as a switch.
Chemists at Ludwig - Maximilians - Univeristaet (LMU) in Munich have fabricated a novel nanosheet -
based photonic crystal that changes color in response to moisture.
Their co-authors around Peter Lodahl from the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, on the other hand, use waveguides
based on
photonic crystals.
Also waveguides
based on so - called «
photonic crystals» (two - dimensional structures with periodically arranged holes) can confine light in this way.