Optics of photonic quasicrystals

Nature Photonics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 177-184

  Vardeny, Z Valy ^a   Nahata, Ajay ^b   Agrawal, Amit ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^c Syracuse University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDING BLOCKES; DISORDERED STRUCTURES; LIGHT TRANSPORT; LONG RANGE ORDERS; PHOTONIC QUASICRYSTAL; THREE DIMENSIONS; TRANSLATIONAL SYMMETRY; WAVE TRANSPORT;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION; QUASICRYSTALS;

PERIODIC STRUCTURES;

EID: 84874632748     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2012.343     Document Type: Article

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