1. Editorial

   Editorial Introduction Pages: 1 - 1

2. Photonic crystals for the visible spectrum by holographic lithography

   • D.N. Sharp
   • M. Campbell
   • A.J. Turberfield

   OriginalPaper Pages: 3 - 12

3. Sub-micrometre dielectric and metallic yablonovite structures fabricated from resist templates

   • C. Cuisin
   • A. Chelnokov
   • J.M. Lourtioz

   OriginalPaper Pages: 13 - 26

4. Characterization of internal order of colloidal crystals by optical diffraction

   • Mathieu Allard
   • Edward H. Sargent
   • Olga Kalinina

   OriginalPaper Pages: 27 - 36

5. Ultra-short pulse propagation in 3D GaAs photonic crystals

   • Tomoko Tanaka
   • Susumu Noda
   • Noritsugu Yamamoto

   OriginalPaper Pages: 37 - 43

6. Effective-mass carrier complete mini-gaps in three-dimensional periodically structured semiconductors

   • C. Goffaux
   • V. Lousse
   • J.P. Vigneron

   OriginalPaper Pages: 45 - 51

7. A new fabrication technique for photonic crystals: Nanolithography combined with alternating-layer deposition

   • E. Kuramochi
   • M. Notomi
   • S. Kawakami

   OriginalPaper Pages: 53 - 61

8. Photonic crystals for the visible range fabricated by autocloning technique and their application

   • T. Sato
   • K. Miura
   • S. Kawakami

   OriginalPaper Pages: 63 - 70

9. Introducing CdS into two- and three-dimensional photonic crystals

   • Osamu Hanaizumi
   • Makoto Saito
   • Akira Ozawa

   OriginalPaper Pages: 71 - 77

10. High extraction efficiency, laterally injected, light emitting diodes combining microcavities and photonic crystals

    • Maxime Rattier
    • Thomas F. Krauss
    • Claude Weisbuch

    OriginalPaper Pages: 79 - 89

11. Integration of 2D photonic crystals with ridge waveguide lasers

    • T.D. Happ
    • M. Kamp
    • A. Forchel

    OriginalPaper Pages: 91 - 99

12. Ultrashort in-plane semiconductor microlasers with high-reflectivity microstructured mirrors

    • Luigi Raffaele
    • Richard M. De La Rue
    • Thomas F. Krauss

    OriginalPaper Pages: 101 - 111

13. Two-dimensional Si photonic crystals on oxide using SOI substrate

    • Akihiko Shinya
    • Masaya Notomi
    • Toshiaki Tamamura

    OriginalPaper Pages: 113 - 121

14. Design, nano-fabrication and analysis of near-infrared 2D photonic crystal air-bridge structures

    • N. Carlsson
    • N. Ikeda
    • K. Inoue

    OriginalPaper Pages: 123 - 131

15. Negative refraction in photonic crystals

    • Masaya Notomi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 133 - 143

16. Design and optimization of 2D photonic crystal waveguides based on silicon

    • M.J.A. De Dood
    • E. Snoeks
    • A. Polman

    OriginalPaper Pages: 145 - 159

17. Dispersion and lifetimes of electromagnetic modes attached to strongly textured slab waveguides

    • V. Pacradouni
    • W.J. Mandeville
    • S.R. Johnson

    OriginalPaper Pages: 161 - 169

18. Transmission properties of two-dimensional photonic crystal channel waveguides

    • S. Olivier
    • H. Benisty
    • T.F. Krauss

    OriginalPaper Pages: 171 - 181

19. Fabrication of GaAs hole array as a 2D-photonic crystal and their application to photonic bandgap waveguide

    • Masashi Nakao
    • Satoshi Oku
    • Hideki Masuda

    OriginalPaper Pages: 183 - 193

20. Out-of-plane scattering in 1-D photonic crystal slabs

    • Wim Bogaerts
    • Peter Bienstman
    • Daniel De Zutter

    OriginalPaper Pages: 195 - 203

21. Finite-depth and intrinsic losses in vertically etched two-dimensional photonic crystals

    • H. Benisty
    • PH. Lalanne
    • D. Cassagne

    OriginalPaper Pages: 205 - 215

22. The photonic analogue of the graded heterostructure: Analysis using the envelope approximation

    • Emanuel Istrate
    • Edward H. Sargent

    OriginalPaper Pages: 217 - 226

23. Scattering and absorption of light by periodic and nearly periodic metallodielectric structures

    • V. Yannopapas
    • A. Modinos
    • N. Stefanou

    OriginalPaper Pages: 227 - 234

24. Smith-Purcell radiation from a charge running near the surface of a photonic crystal

    • Kazuo Ohtaka
    • Syuichi Yamaguti

    OriginalPaper Pages: 235 - 250

25. Photonic crystal modelling using a tight-binding Wannier function method

    • J.P Albert
    • C. Jouanin
    • D. Monge

    OriginalPaper Pages: 251 - 263

26. The use of controllable photonic band gap (CPBG) materials: An antenna application

    • A. Delustrac
    • T. Brillat
    • E. Akmansoy

    OriginalPaper Pages: 265 - 277

27. Electromagnetic crystals in microstrip technology

    • T. Lopetegi
    • M.A.G. Laso
    • M. Sorolla

    OriginalPaper Pages: 279 - 295

28. Analysis and design of electromagnetic crystals in microstrip technology using a fibre grating model

    • M.J. Erro
    • M.A.G. Laso
    • M. Sorolla

    OriginalPaper Pages: 297 - 310

29. Instructions for Authors

    Instructions for Authors Pages: 311 - 316