2 6 A pr 2 01 7 Complete photonic bandgaps in supercell photonic crystals
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We develop a class of supercell photonic crystals supporting complete photonic bandgaps based on breaking spatial symmetries of the underlying primitive photonic crystal. One member of this class based on a two-dimensional honeycomb structure supports a complete bandgap for an indexcontrast ratio as low as nhigh/nlow = 2.1, making this the first such 2D photonic crystal to support a complete bandgap in lossless materials at visible frequencies. The complete bandgaps found in such supercell photonic crystals do not necessarily monotonically increase as the index-contrast in the system is increased, disproving a long-held conjecture of complete bandgaps in photonic crystals.
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