Enhanced Photoconductivity in Thin-Film Semiconductors Optically Coupled to Photonic Crystals

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GAO and SJ are Government of Canada Research Chairs in Materials Chemistry and Physics, respectively. GAO, NPK, SZ, and SJ are deeply indebted to the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the University of Toronto for financial support of this work. HM acknowledges partial funding provided by the Ramón Areces Foundation and the Spanish Ministry of Science and Education under grant MAT2005-03 028. The authors would like to thank Dr. Davit Yeghikyan and Dr. Stefan Costea for their assistance in carrying out the hydrogenated amorphous silicon depositions and the quantum efficiency measurements