Photonic bandgaps seek out Mother's good nature

Approaches to fabricating the photonic bandgap materials that may someday enable inexpensive mass-production of all-optical chips and optical integrated circuits, in the same way that silicon has enabled integrated semiconductors, have generally taken two routes, according to David Norris, a former research scientist at NEC, now at the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN). One route is to use the technologies developed to manufacture computer chips, and the other route seeks out simpler and more natural methods.

Jin U. Kang, Chang-Seok Kim, and Jacob B. Khurgin