Volume 26, No. 8
August 2001
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MATERIALS SCIENCE ASPECTS OF PHOTONIC CRYSTALS
Materials Science Aspects
of Photonic Crystals, 608
A. Polman and P. Wiltzius, Guest Editors
Microstructured Silica as an Optical-Fiber
Material, 614
J.C. Knight, T.A. Birks, B.J. Mangan, and P.St.J. Russell
Two- and Three-Dimensional Photonic Crystals
in III-V Semiconductors, 618
S. Noda
Electrochemically Prepared Pore Arrays for
Photonic-Crystal Applications, 623
R.B. Wehrspohn and J. Schilling
Two- and Three-Dimensional Photonic Crystals
Built with VLSI Tools, 627
S.-Y. Lin, J.G. Fleming, and E. Chow
Photonic Crystals Made by Holographic Lithography,
632
A.J. Turberfield
From Opals to Optics: Colloidal Photonic Crystals,
637
V.L. Colvin
Optical Probes inside Photonic Crystals, 642
W.L. Vos and A. Polman
MRS NEWS
MRS Seeks Nominees for Outstanding Young Investigator Award, 2002, 647
MRS Featured Volunteer, 647
ABSTRACTS
Abstracts for September 2001 Journal of Materials Research, 648
DEPARTMENTS
Research/Researchers, 595
Technology Advances, 602
Washington News, 605
Resources,
607
Advertisers
in This Issue, 613
Library, 651
Optical Crystallography, F.D. Bloss, reviewed by V.D.
Frechette;
A Guide to Monte Carlo Simulations in Statistical Physics,
D.P. Landau and K. Binder, reviewed by H. Gould; Introduction
to Texture Analysis: Macrotexture, Microtexture and Orientation
Mapping, V. Randle and O. Engler, reviewed by M. Vaudin;
Handbook of Ceramics Grinding and Polishing, I. Marinescu,
H.K. Tonshoff, and I. Inasaki, eds., reviewed by T. Lilley;
The Binns Medalists, M.L. Carney, reviewed by G. Long
Classified,
653
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ON THE COVER: Materials Aspects of Photonic Crystals. (background) Simulation of the propagation of an optical mode traveling around a sharply bent waveguide in a two-dimensional (2D) photonic crystal composed of a cubic array of dielectric cylinders. (overlay) Red and blue curves show reflection and normal incident transmission spectra, respectively, of a 3D photonic crystal. (top left) A scanning electron microscopy (SEM) image of a 3D photonic crystal. (bottom left) SEM image of a 3D photonic-crystal waveguide based on the layer-by-layer structure in silicon. (center right, hexagonal image) Optical micrograph of the central portion of the output face of an air-core photonic-bandgap fiber illuminated at the input face using a white-light source; the strong green light in the core is confined by the bandgap of the surrounding photonic-crystal cladding. (bottom right) Reflections of three colloidal-crystal thin films illuminated with white light, their colors arising from varying the sphere diameters in the three different samples; the SEM image to the right reveals the micrometer structure of these films (scale bar, 1 µm). See the technical theme that begins on p. 608.
