Numerical Studies on Electromagnetic Waves Properties in Metallic-Dielectric Photonic Crystal

Arafa H. Aly, Ehab Abdel-Rahman, Hassan S. Hanafey

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DOI: 10.4236/jemaa.2011.311074                

Abstract

We have performed numerical analyses to investigate the propagation characteristics of a simple-one dimensional metallic-dielectric structure. Several different metals have been studied (aluminum, gold, copper, and silver). Copper gives the smallest absorption and aluminum is more absorptive. We have compared between the transmittance of these structures with different metals and the same dielectric material. Also we used these different metals with the same layer thickness, incidence angels, number of layers and the same electromagnetic waves range.

Keywords

Transmittance, PC, Pasmonic

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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