U.S.-Greece Cooperative Research: Photonic Crystals

00001236 Soukoulis这个为期两年的奖项，支持美国-希腊合作研究光子带隙材料，包括爱荷华州州立大学的Costas Soukoulis和G。克里特大学和克里特岛研究中心的Kiriakalan说。 他们的研究目标是开发新的实验和理论工具，以了解光子晶体的特性，参考Sub-THz和THz晶体，缺陷，新型材料和红外波段的制造。联合S.研究人员带来了这种合作的专业知识，在一个新的电介质结构，具有完整的三维光子带隙，有利于制造具有更高的光子带隙频率的晶体。 这是补充希腊研究人员的优势，在制造光子晶体使用深x射线光刻。 每一方都为拟议的研究提供补充设备。 这项研究有望使人们了解如何设计和制造光子晶体，光子晶体可能用于毫米波天线和无阈值半导体激光器等应用。

00001236SoukoulisThis two-year award, which supports U.S.-Greece cooperative research on photonic band gap materials, involves Costas Soukoulis of Iowa State University and G. Kiriakidis of the University of Crete and the Research Center of Crete. The objective of their research is to develop new experimental and theoretical tools to understand the characteristics of photonic crystals, referencing Sub-THz and THz crystals, defects, novel materials, and fabrication at infrared wave scales. The U. S. investigator brings to this collaboration expertise in a new dielectric structure that has full three-dimensional PBG that facilitates fabricating crystals with higher photonic band gap frequencies. This is complemented by the Greek investigator's strengths in fabricating photonic crystals using deep x-ray lithography. Each side provides complementary equipment for the proposed research. The research is expected to lead to understanding of how to design and build photonic crystals, which may be used in such applications as millimeter-wave antennas and thresholdless semiconductor lasers.