Abstract
Photonic crystals are three-dimensional periodic dielectric structures where the propagation of electromagnetic (EM) waves can be forbidden for a certain range of frequencies.1,2 Early attempts to use these structures in applications like thresholdless semiconductor lasers and single-mode light-emitting diodes have suffered from the difficulties associated with fabricating sub-micron features needed to achieve a band gap at optical frequencies. On the other hand, fabricating photonic band gap (PBG) structures at millimeter-wave and infrared wavelength scales3 have been more successful.
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