https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-023-04180-1
Regular Article
Transmittance spectra of (
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1D photonic crystals: the role of GaAs and AlxGa(1−x)As semiconductors in the visible range
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Physics Department, Faculty of Applied Science, Umm AL-Qura University, P.O Box 715, Makkah, Saudi Arabia
2
Nanomaterials Technology Unit, Basic and Applied Scientific Research Center (BASRC), Physics Department, College of Science of Dammam, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, P.O. Box 1982, 31441, Dammam, Saudi Arabia
3
Grupo de Física Teórica, Programa de Física, Universidad Surcolombiana, 385, Neiva-Huila, AA, Colombia
Received:
4
April
2023
Accepted:
9
June
2023
Published online:
22
June
2023
We present the transmittance spectra of one-dimensional photonic crystals embedded on two sides with air. The unit cell is composed of a 
superconductor as material 
and a 
dielectric as material 
. The transmittance of the formed structure 
was studied using the transfer matrix method for different parameters such as layer widths (
and 
), the angle of incidence, and temperature. Wavelength shifts delimiting the photonic bandgaps (PBGs) are discussed in detail. We found that these wavelengths shifted toward longer values (i.e., a redshift) as the size of the layers increased and the temperature increased. However, increasing the incidence angle shifts the wavelengths to shorter values (i.e., a blueshift). In the second part of this work, we discuss the impact of inserting semiconductor layers 
with different bandgaps and varying the hydrostatic pressure, temperature, and aluminum concentration. We demonstrate that these semiconductors can also shift the PBGs and modify their widths; these findings constitute important results with implications for the design and realization of photonic filters.
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