Absolute band gap engineering of anisotropic square and triangular photonic crystals

We analyze the band gap properties of two-dimensional photonic crystals created by square and triangular lattices of rods, considering that the rods are formed of a dielectric core surrounded by an interfacial layer of anisotropic tellurium. Using the plane wave analysis, we study the modification of the band gap spectrum when the rods are infiltrated with different dielectric core and discuss the optimization strategies leading to the maximum value of the absolute band gap.