Engineered Porosity for Microphotonics and Plasmonics 797 : 2003 MRS Fall Meeting Symposium Proceedings

Nanostructures with dimensions in the range of the wavelength of light have gained enormous interest in the last 10 years. This has driven materials research and enabled the development of novel nanostructuring techniques. Applications include ultracompact devices based on total internal reflection (classical integrated optics) as well as on Bragg reflection (photonic crystals). Initially, only dielectric nanostructures had been considered, but more recently, metallic nanostructures as well as metallodielectric structures are predicted to have great potential in subwavelength optics. This volume combines the areas of optical nanoparticles, microphotonics, photonic crystals and the emerging field of plasmonics. A review of recent advances in the understandings of porous silicon, the famous light-emitting silicon sponge which caused a real hype in the beginning of the 90s, opens the volume. New results and first devices in the area of photonic crystals are also featured. An understanding of photonic crystal properties provides new insight in the classical area of ridge waveguides, and new designs are proposed. Finally, the emerging field of plasmonics is discussed.Wehrspohn, Ralf is the author of 'Engineered Porosity for Microphotonics and Plasmonics 797 : 2003 MRS Fall Meeting Symposium Proceedings', published 2009 under ISBN 9781558997356 and ISBN 1558997350.