Disorder-enhanced transport in photonic quasicrystals

Science

Volumn 332, Issue 6037, 2011, Pages 1541-1544

  Levi, Liad ^a   Rechtsman, Mikael ^a   Freedman, Barak ^a   Schwartz, Tal ^a   Manela, Ofer ^a   Segev, Mordechai ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

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Indexed keywords

ALLOY; ALUMINUM; ART; CRYSTAL PROPERTY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; POLYMER; SYMMETRY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ARTICLE; ATOM; CRYSTAL; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIFFUSION; ELECTRON; ELECTRON BEAM; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUASICRYSTAL;

EID: 79959531980     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1202977     Document Type: Article

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