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Fabrication And Characterization Of Photonic Crystal Slow Light Waveguides And Cavities
Published on: November 30, 2012
Controlling growth of molecular crystal aggregates for efficient optical waveguides
Songhua Chen1, Nan Chen, Yong Li Yan
1CAS Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|June 2, 2012
Abstract:
Controllable crystal aggregate structures which show highly uniform crystal tubule, rod and cubic like architectures were achieved and the well-defined microrods exhibit outstanding optical waveguide properties.
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