Dirac cones induced by accidental degeneracy in photonic crystals and zero-refractive-index materials

Nature Materials

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 582-586

  Huang, Xueqin ^a   Lai, Yun ^a,b   Hang, Zhi Hong ^a   Zheng, Huihuo ^a   Chan, C T ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; DISPERSION (WAVES); DISPERSIONS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

BRILLOUIN ZONES; DIELECTRIC PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; EFFECTIVE MEDIUM THEORIES; FINITE FREQUENCIES; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; MAN-MADE COMPOSITES; METALLIC COMPONENT; MICROWAVE REGIME;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

EID: 79960641117     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3030     Document Type: Article

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