U.S.-Greece Cooperative Research: Photonic Crystals

00001236Soukoulis这个为期两年的奖项，支持美国和希腊在光子带隙材料方面的合作研究，参与者包括爱荷华州立大学的Costas Soukoulis和克里特岛大学和克里特岛研究中心的G. Kiriakidis。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，参考亚太赫兹和太赫兹晶体，缺陷，新材料和红外波尺度的制造。美国研究人员为这次合作带来了一种新的电介质结构的专业知识，这种结构具有全三维PBG，有助于制造具有更高光子带隙频率的晶体。这与希腊研究者利用深x射线光刻技术制造光子晶体的优势相补充。双方为拟进行的研究提供配套设备。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.