Publication: Parametric Simulations of Slanted 1D Photonic Crystal Sensors
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2016
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Breuer-Weil, Aaron, Naif Nasser Almasoud, Badaruddin Abbasi, Ali K. Yetisen, Seok-Hyun Yun, and Haider Butt. 2016. “Parametric Simulations of Slanted 1D Photonic Crystal Sensors.” Nanoscale Research Letters 11 (1): 157. doi:10.1186/s11671-016-1321-0. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s11671-016-1321-0.
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Photonic crystals and band gap materials act as manipulators of light and have a plethora of applications. They are made up of stacks of alternating dielectric constants. This article shows the simulations of an inclined, one dimensional and tuneble photonic crystal, using numerical finite element methods. The photonic crystal was made up of silver nanoparticles embedded in a hydrogel matrix and it has the ability to change and recover its periodicity. A series of factors concerning the geometry of the lattice were tested in order to analyze the efficiency, performance and optimize the properties of the optical sensor. These factors range from the size of the nanoparticles and their density within the stacks, to observing the effect of diffraction angle in readouts.
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