Nanostructured porous silicon photonic crystal for applications in the infrared
Entity
UAM. Departamento de Física AplicadaPublisher
Hindawi Publishing CorporationDate
2012-02-21Citation
10.1155/2012/106170
Journal of Nanotechnology 2012 (2012): 106170
ISSN
1687-9503 (print); 1687-9511 (online)DOI
10.1155/2012/106170Funded by
The authors also gratefully acknowledge funding from Comunidad de Madrid (Spain) under project “Microseres” and Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Spain) under Research Project MAT2011-28345-C02-01Project
Comunidad de Madrid. S2009/TIC-1476/MICROSERESEditor's Version
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/106170Subjects
2D structures; 3D structure; Air holes; Argon ion; Complete band gap; Complete photonic band gap; Copper grids; Nano-structured; Novel devices; Silicon photonic crystals; Single layer; Square meshes; Thermal infrared; FísicaRights
© 2012 G. Recio-Sánchez et al.Abstract
In the last decades great interest has been devoted to photonic crystals aiming at the creation of novel devices which can control light propagation. In the present work, two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) devices based on nanostructured porous silicon have been fabricated. 2D devices consist of a square mesh of 2 μm wide porous silicon veins, leaving 5x5 μm square air holes. 3D structures share the same design although multilayer porous silicon veins are used instead, providing an additional degree of modulation. These devices are fabricated from porous silicon single layers (for 2D structures) or multilayers (for 3D structures), opening air holes in them by means of 1KeV argon ion bombardment through the appropriate copper grids. For 2D structures, a complete photonic band gap for TE polarization is found in the thermal infrared range. For 3D structures, there are no complete band gaps, although several new partial gaps do exist in different high-symmetry directions. The simulation results suggest that these structures are very promising candidates for the development of low-cost photonic devices for their use in the thermal infrared range
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Torres Costa, Vicente
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Manso Silván, Miguel
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Martín Palma, Raúl José
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