SEMICONDUCTORS OF LIGHT = PHOTONIC CRYSTALS. “Nanostructured materials containing ordered arrays of holes could lead to an optoelectronics revolution, doing for light what silicon did for electrons. The microelectronics and information revolution is based on the elaborate control of electric currents achieved with semiconductors such as silicon. That control depends on a phenomenon called the band gap: a range of energies in which electrons are blocked from traveling through the semiconductor.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022