Research Highlights

Science News (Oct. 04, 2003): “Hot crystal: Light bulbs and a radiation law may never be the same”.

Scientific American-online (July 02, 2003): “Tungsten crystal could provide more power for electrical devices”.

Nature (May ‘02): “All metallic three-dimensional photonic crystal for energy applications”.

MRS Bulletin (Aug. ‘01): “2D and 3D photonic crystal built with VLSI tools”.

Nature (Oct 26, ‘00): “Three Dimensional control of light in a two-dimensional Photonic Crystal Slab”.

Science (Dec 17, ’99): The Top-10 breakthrough of the year.

R&D magazine (Nov, ’99): “Lattice may be key to silicon photonics”.

Science (Nov. 19, ’99): “Cages for light go from concept to reality”.

Physics Today (Jan 01, ‘99): “Visible progress made in 3D photonic crystal”.

Science (Oct. 9, ’98): “Experimental demonstration of guiding and bending of EM waves in a photonic crystal”.

Science (Oct. 9, ‘98): “Optical circuits turn a corner”. p. 207. (WWW.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/282/)

Nature (July 16, 1998): “A three dimensional photonic crystal operating at infrared wavelengths”.

Scientific American-online (Sep. 21, 1998): “Light twister”(www.sciam.com/exploration/).

Patents

1. Photonic crystal devices formed by a charged-particle beam

2. Use of chemical-mechanical polishing for fabricating photonic bandgap structures

3. Media for Control of Thermal Emission and Methods of Applications Thereof

4. Method to fabricate layered material compositions

5. Photonic Layered Media

6. Photodetectors with Passive Thermal Radiation Control

7. Photonically Engineered Incandescent Emitter

8. Thermophotovoltaic Energy Conversion using Photonic Bandgap Selective Emitters

9. Electrically Pumped Edge-Emitting Photonic Bandgap Semiconductor Laser