Title :
Computational studies of photonic band gaps in metals
Author :
Pendry, J.B. ; Vidal, F. J Garcia
Author_Institution :
Blackett Lab., Imperial Coll. of Sci., Technol. & Med., London, UK
Abstract :
It is demonstrated that metallic microstructures show much more complex effects than do dielectric structures. Characteristically the effects are due to enhancement of the incident radiation by resonant surface states within the system, the enhancement being particularly intense when two surfaces are in close proximity as at a crack or crevice. Controlling the structure, and thus the enhancement, brings the possibility of bringing to bear huge radiation fields in very small volumes
Keywords :
photonic band gap; complex effects; crack; crevice; huge radiation fields; incident radiation; metallic microstructures; metals; photonic band gaps; resonant surface states; very small volumes;
Conference_Titel :
Semiconductor Optical Microcavity Devices and Photonic Bandgaps (Digest No. 1996/267), IEE Colloquium on
Conference_Location :
London
DOI :
10.1049/ic:19961412
