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Existing Fab Methods Could Yield ‘Light Prison’

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ENSCHEDE, Netherlands, Sept. 26, 2014 — A “prison for light” designed by Dutch theorists could be created using existing silicon-etching techniques and play a role in optical communications. The inverse woodpile photonic crystal has an atomic structure similar to diamond and incorporates arrays of perpendicular pores. One pore in each set has a smaller diameter, forming a point-defect at their intersection where light is confined. The photonic bandgap crystal has a diamond-like structure, made of two sets of mutually perpendicular pores drilled in silicon. To realize a resonant cavity, one pore in each set...Read full article

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    Published: September 2014
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    nano
    An SI prefix meaning one billionth (10-9). Nano can also be used to indicate the study of atoms, molecules and other structures and particles on the nanometer scale. Nano-optics (also referred to as nanophotonics), for example, is the study of how light and light-matter interactions behave on the nanometer scale. See nanophotonics.
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