Photonic Band Gap Materials

Photonic Band Gaps: Introduction.- An Introduction to Photonic Crystals.- Photonic Band Gap Materials.- Micromachined Photonic Band Gap Crystals: From Microwave to the Far-Infrared.- Fabrication of Three-Dimensional Photonic Band Gap Material by Deep X-ray Lithography.- Bloch Wave Optics in Photonic Crystals: Physics and Applications.- Optical Measurements of Photonic Band Structure in Colloidal Crystals.- Influence of Optical Band Structures on the Diffraction of Photonic Colloidal Crystals.- From Micromaster to Microlaser.- Elastic Waves in Periodic Composite Materials.- Photonic Band Gaps: Metallic Structures and Transmission.- 3-D Metallic Photonic Bandgap Structures.- Photonic Band Gap Structures: Studies of the Transmission Coefficient.- Transfer Matrix Techniques for Electromagnetic Waves.- Layer-by-Layer Methods in the Study of Photonic Crystals and Related Problems.- Electromagnetic Field Distributions in Complex Dielectric Structures.- Photonic Band Structures and Resonant Modes.- Photonic Band Structures of Systems with Components Characterized by Frequency-Dependent Dielectric Functions.- Photonic Band Structures of 1D and 2D Periodic Systems with Metallic Components in the Presence of Dissipation.- Band Structure and Transmission of Photonic Media: A Real-space Finite-difference Calculation with the R-matrix Propagator.- Photonic Band Gaps: Applications.- Microwave Applications of Photonic Crystals.- Optimized Antennas on Photonic Band Gap Crystals.- Design Considerations for a 2-D Photonic Band Gap Accelerator Cavity.- Microcavities in Channel Waveguides.- Exploring the Two-dimensional Photonic Bandgap in Semiconductors.- 2D Photonic Band Gap Structures in Fibre Form.- Dispersion, Tunability and Applications of Defect Modes in Photonic Band-gap Structures.- Fabrication of 2-D Infrared Photonic Crystals in Macroporous Silicon.- Photonic Band Gaps: 1D and 2D Structures.- Techniques for Bandstructures and Defect States in Photonic Crystals.- Impurity Modes from Frequency Dependent Dielectric Impurities in Photonic Band Structures.- Two-Dimensional Photonic Band Gaps: New Hexagonal Structures.- Photonic Band Gaps in Complex-unit Systems and Quasi One-dimensional Waveguides.- Theory of Light Scattering Through a Two-dimensional Periodic Array.- Two-Dimensional Guides with Photonic Band Gap Boundaries: Mode Structures.- Second Harmonic Scattering From Sites of a Crystalline Lattice.- Multistability and Switching in Nonlinear Layered Optical and Electronic Media.- Waveguides in Periodic Structures with Smoothly Varying Parameters.- Photonic Band Structure Calculation of System Possesing Kerr Nonlinearity.- Photonic Band Gaps and Localization.- Localization of Light: Theory of Photonic Band Gap Materials.- Energy Transport Velocity in Random Media.- Photonic Band Structures of Atomic Lattices.- Interaction of Different Scattering Mechanisms in a One-dimensional Random Photonic Lattice.- Wave Confinement and Localization: Dimensional Crossover Effect.- Transition from Ballistic to Diffusive Behavior for Multiply Scattered Waves.- Author Index.