Maximizing complete band gaps in two-dimensional photonic crystals by using artificial immune network

In this manuscript, an artificial immune network was applied to the inverse problem of maximization of complete photonic band gaps in two-dimensional photonic crystals. The computation of dispersion relations in such structures were carried out by means of the MIT Photonic-Bands package. Because of its multimodal searching capability, the artificial immune network could reach similar results, as well as improved ones, when compared to a similar approach based on genetic optimization.