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Large tunable photonic band gaps in nanostructured doped semiconductors

Optics 2010-11-10 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

A plasmonic nanostructure conceived with periodic layers of a doped semiconductor and passive semiconductor is shown to generate spontaneously surface plasmon polaritons thanks to its periodic nature. The nanostructure is demonstrated to behave as an effective material modeled by a simple dielectric function of ionic-crystal type, and possesses a fully tunable photonic band gap, with widths exceeding 50%, in the region extending from mid-infra-red to Tera-Hertz.

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@article{arxiv.1011.2124,
  title  = {Large tunable photonic band gaps in nanostructured doped semiconductors},
  author = {J. Leon and T. Taliercio},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.2124},
  year   = {2010}
}

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6 pages, 4 figures, published