“…After the pioneering work of Yablonovitch and John in 1987 (John, 1987 ; Yablonovitch, 1987 ), a large number of PC-related projects was proposed. Over the past several years, PCs have been broadly used in many applications, including sensing (Barry & Wiltzius, 2006 ; Potyrailo et al, 2007 ; Huang et al, 2013 ; Zhang et al, 2015b ; Li et al, 2016b ), biodetection (Wang et al, 2013 ; Cai et al, 2014 , Massad-Ivanir et al, 2014 ; Ye et al, 2014 ; Ayyub & Kofinas, 2015 ; Cai et al, 2015a ,b), displays (Arsenault et al, 2007 ; Kang et al, 2011 ; Su et al, 2014 ), optical devices (Li et al, 2010 ; Scofield et al, 2011 ; Li & Meng, 2014 ; Wan et al, 2016 ; Aly et al, 2017 ; Liberal & Engheta, 2017 ), superconductor (Zhang et al, 2012 ; Aly et al, 2015 ; Aly et al, 2016 ) and solar cells (Agustín et al, 2011 ; Bayram & Halaoui, 2013 ; Park et al, 2014 ).…”