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Nature Photonics 2, 9 - 11 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2007.258

Photonic Crystals: Acclaimed defects

Chih-Hung Sun1 & Peng Jiang1

  1. Chih-Hung Sun and Peng Jiang are in the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA.

Correspondence to: Chih-Hung Sun1 e-mail: csun@che.ufl.edu

Correspondence to: Peng Jiang1 e-mail: pjiang@che.ufl.edu


Defect engineering is crucial for realizing all-optical integrated circuits from self-assembled photonic crystals. A two-photon polymerization strategy paves the way towards incorporation of arbitrary defects in silicon inverse opal photonic crystals.

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