Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 40, Number 6, December II 1997
|
|
---|---|---|
Page(s) | 613 - 618 | |
Section | Classical areas of phenomenology | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i1997-00512-5 | |
Published online | 01 September 2002 |
Mie resonances and bonding in photonic crystals
Condensed Matter Theory Group, Blackett Laboratory,
Imperial College, London SW7 2BZ, UK
Received:
28
April
1997
Accepted:
24
October
1997
Isolated dielectric spheres support resonant electromagnetic (EM) modes which are analogous to electronic orbitals and, like their electronic counterparts, can form bonding or anti-bonding interactions between neighbouring spheres. By irradiating the system with light at the bonding frequency an attractive interaction is induced between the spheres. We suggest that by judicious selection of bonding states we can drive a system towards a desired structure, rather than rely on the structure dictated by gravitational or Van der Waals forces, the latter deriving from the zero point energy population of a state.
PACS: 42.25.Fx – Diffraction and scattering / 42.70.Qs – Photonic bandgap materials / 42.65.Vh – Other nonlinear optical phenomena
© EDP Sciences, 1997
Current usage metrics show cumulative count of Article Views (full-text article views including HTML views, PDF and ePub downloads, according to the available data) and Abstracts Views on Vision4Press platform.
Data correspond to usage on the plateform after 2015. The current usage metrics is available 48-96 hours after online publication and is updated daily on week days.
Initial download of the metrics may take a while.