Fountaine, Katherine T. and Whitney, William S. and Atwater, Harry A. (2014) Resonant absorption in semiconductor nanowires and nanowire arrays: Relating leaky waveguide modes to Bloch photonic crystal modes. Journal of Applied Physics, 116 (15). Art. No. 153106. ISSN 0021-8979. doi:10.1063/1.4898758. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20141204-082749176
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Abstract
We present a unified framework for resonant absorption in periodic arrays of high index semiconductor nanowires that combines a leaky waveguide theory perspective and that of photonic crystals supporting Bloch modes, as array density transitions from sparse to dense. Full dispersion relations are calculated for each mode at varying illumination angles using the eigenvalue equation for leaky waveguide modes of an infinite dielectric cylinder. The dispersion relations along with symmetry arguments explain the selectivity of mode excitation and spectral red-shifting of absorption for illumination parallel to the nanowire axis in comparison to perpendicular illumination. Analysis of photonic crystal band dispersion for varying array density illustrates that the modes responsible for resonant nanowire absorption emerge from the leaky waveguide modes.
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| Additional Information: | © 2014 AIP Publishing. Received 19 August 2014; accepted 9 October 2014; published online 21 October 2014. This material is based upon work performed by the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, a DOE Energy Innovation Hub, supported through the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under Award No. DESC0004993. K.T.F. was supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship under Grant No. DGE-1144469. W.S.W. was supported by the National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate Fellowship. | |||||||||
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| Issue or Number: | 15 | |||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1063/1.4898758 | |||||||||
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| Official Citation: | Resonant absorption in semiconductor nanowires and nanowire arrays: Relating leaky waveguide modes to Bloch photonic crystal modes Fountaine, Katherine T. and Whitney, William S. and Atwater, Harry A., Journal of Applied Physics, 116, 153106 (2014), DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4898758 | |||||||||
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| Deposited By: | Tony Diaz | |||||||||
| Deposited On: | 04 Dec 2014 20:55 | |||||||||
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