… cavities formed between two such crystals. The measurement … trenches or by two-dimensional
photonic crystal are probed by … in such photon boxes demonstrate the excellent photon …

… the photonic bandgap. A small disorder or defect introduced into the … photonic crystal would
become an ultimate photonic nanocavity, with ultra-large Q/V. However, 3D photonic crystals …

… -coupled photonic crystal slab (essentially a free-standing 2D photonic crystal) with a strong
… fully controlling light in all three dimensions. These features confirm theoretical calculations …

… the photon bandgap, which is the basis of the photonic crystal function. Photonic crystals
are divided into three categories: one, two, and three dimensional. Also, the magnitude of the …

… We review recent progress in the development of two-dimensional (2-D) photonic crystal (PC)
materials for chemical and biological sensing applications. Self-assembly methods were …

… In this letter we focus only on a photonic crystal with a band gap between the first two bands
… the fabrication of the crystal in a thin dielectric slab system. The photonic crystal bands were …

… label-free”) sensing over the past two decades. Parallel developments in the telecom industry…
This review focuses on one such class of structures: two-dimensional photonic crystals (2D …

… is given, essentially infinite 2D photonic crystals made from macroporous silicon and
photonic crystal slabs based on silicon-on-insulator basis. We discuss the bulk photonic crystal …

… Further, without loss of generality we restrict our consideration to the case of a two-dimension
photonic crystal based on a square lattice. In Section 2, we give a physical insight on the …

… photonic band gap of a two-dimensional photonic crystal is continuously tuned using the
temperature dependent refractive index of a liquid crystal… tunable two-dimensional macroporous …