TY  - JOUR
TI  - Inhibited Spontaneous Emission in Solid-State Physics and Electronics
AU  - Eli Yablonovitch
PY  - 1987
JO  - Physical Review Letters
DO  - 10.1103/physrevlett.58.2059
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.58.2059
AB  - It has been recognized for some time that the spontaneous emission by atoms is not necessarily a fixed and immutable property of the coupling between matter and space, but that it can be controlled by modification of the properties of the radiation field. This is equally true in the solid state, where spontaneous emission plays a fundamental role in limiting the performance of semiconductor lasers, heterojunction bipolar transistors, and solar cells. If a three-dimensionally periodic dielectric structure has an electromagnetic band gap which overlaps the electronic band edge, then spontaneous emission can be rigorously forbidden.
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