Localization of light in a disordered medium

Nature

Volumn 390, Issue 6661, 1997, Pages 671-673

  Wiersma, Diederik S ^a   Bartolini, Paolo ^a   Lagendijk, Ad ^b   Righini, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIFFUSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; LIGHT; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICONDUCTOR; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

EID: 0031456977     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/37757     Document Type: Article

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