Optical waveguides – Planar optical waveguide
Reexamination Certificate
2005-09-19
2008-09-02
Kianni, K. Cyrus (Department: 2883)
Optical waveguides
Planar optical waveguide
C385S132000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07421177
ABSTRACT:
An optoelectronic component with a photonic crystal, which also has an electronic band gap, and a method for controlling tunneling electron currents by means of photons are proposed. Essentially loss-free and very fast switching is enabled in that a photonic crystal has a defect mode in its photonic band gap for photons with such an energy that electron transitions, especially in the form of single-electron tunneling processes between adjacent ligand-stabilized metal clusters, can be induced by the irradiation of corresponding photons due to at least one defect site.
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Mellis Birgit
Schmid Günter
Schön Günter
Simon Ulrich
Kianni K. Cyrus
Universitat Duisburg-Essen
Woodard Emhardt Moriarty McNett & Henry LLP
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