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Nature 416, 685-686 (18 April 2002) | doi:10.1038/416685a
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Device physics: Defective promise in photonics
T. Andrew Taton1 & David J. Norris1
Abstract
Using self-assembly to produce technologically useful photonic devices becomes more feasible with the demonstration of defect engineering in a self-assembled photonic crystal.
Just as research in semiconductors led to a revolution in electronics, new materials known as photonic crystals promise a similar revolution in photonics — where photons of light rather than electrons are the fundamental carriers of information. Photons are already preferred to electrons in modern computer and communication networks because of the efficiency of sending optical signals along optical fibres.
- T. Andrew Taton is in the Department of Chemistry
and David J. Norris is in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.
e-mail: Email: taton@chem.umn.edu
e-mail: Email: dnorris@umn.edu
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