Authors
KM Ho, Che Ting Chan, Costas M Soukoulis
Publication date
1990/12/17
Journal
Physical Review Letters
Volume
65
Issue
25
Pages
3152
Publisher
American Physical Society
Description
Using a plane-wave expansion method, we have solved Maxwell’s equations for the propagation of electromagnetic waves in a periodic lattice of dielectric spheres (dielectric constant ε a) in a uniform dielectric background (ε b). Contrary to experiment, we find that fcc dielectric structures do not have a ‘‘photonic band gap’’that extends throughout the Brillouin zone. However, we have determined that dielectric spheres arranged in the diamond structure do possess a full photonic band gap. This gap exists for refractive-index contrasts as low as 2.
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KM Ho, CT Chan, CM Soukoulis - Physical Review Letters, 1990