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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2008
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2005
Günter Schmid, Velbert, DE;
Ulrich Simon, Aachen, DE;
Günter Schön, Ahrensberg, DE;
Birgit Mellis, Düsseldorf, DE;
Günter Schmid, Velbert, DE;
Ulrich Simon, Aachen, DE;
Günter Schön, Ahrensberg, DE;
Birgit Mellis, Düsseldorf, DE;
Universitat Duisburg-Essen, Essen, DE;
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.