Liquid crystals in woodpile photonic crystals : fabrication, numerical calculation and measurement 

    Ho, Chih-Hua (Date of defense: 2016-03-14)

    Both experimental and numerical studies on Liquid Crystal (LC) infiltrated woodpile Photonic Crystal (PhC) are implemented in this thesis. The most well-known optical phenomenon of PhC is photonic bandgap (PBG). It is ...