Transport and Anderson localization in disordered two-dimensional photonic lattices

Nature

Volumn 446, Issue 7131, 2007, Pages 52-55

  Schwartz, Tal ^a   Bartal, Guy ^a   Fishman, Shmuel ^a   Segev, Mordechai ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL; ELECTRON; IMMOBILIZATION; PHYSICS; TRANSPORT PROCESS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; WAVE ENERGY;

ARTICLE; BALLISTICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 33847421519     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05623     Document Type: Article

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