Meet the editor

Pankaj Kumar Choudhury has held academic/research positions at Banaras Hindu University (Varanasi, India), Goa University (Goa, India), Laval University (Quebec, Canada), Gunma University (Kiryu, Japan), Multimedia University (Cyberjaya, Malaysia), and Telekom RandD (Malaysia). He is currently a professor at the Institute of Microengineering and Nanoelectronics, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (Bangi, Malaysia). His

research is focused on photonics. He has published more than 220 research papers, a number of chapters in 12 research-level books, and edited and coedited four books. He serves on the editorial board of *Optik—International Journal for Light and Electron Optics* (Elsevier, The Netherlands) and is the Editor-in-Chief of the *Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications* (Taylor & Francis, UK). He is also senior member of the IEEE, OSA, and SPIE.

Contents

**Preface III**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 11**

**Chapter 3 29**

**Chapter 4 51**

**Chapter 5 73**

**Chapter 6 89**

Hybrid Liquid-Crystal/Photonic-Crystal Devices: Current Research

The Mid-Infrared Photonic Crystals for Gas Sensing Applications

*by Ahmad Rifqi Md Zain and Richard M. De La Rue*

Modelling of Photonic Crystal (PhC) Cavities: Theory and Applications

Introductory Chapter: Photonic Crystals–Revisited

*by Pankaj Kumar Choudhury*

and Applications *by Yu-Cheng Hsiao*

Phononic Crystals and Thermal Effects *by Arafa H. Aly and Ahmed Mehaney*

Metal-Matrix Embedded Phononic Crystals *by Suobin Li, Yihua Dou and Linka Niu*

*by Tahere Hemati and Binbin Weng*
