Weyl points and line nodes in gyroid photonic crystals

Nature Photonics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 294-299

  Lu, Ling ^a   Fu, Liang ^a   Joannopoulos, John D ^a   Soljacic, Marin ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO CALCULATIONS; CHERN NUMBERS; FLAT DISPERSION; MOMENTUM SPACES; OPTICAL FREQUENCY; PREDICTIVE POWER; SURFACE DISPERSION; TIME REVERSAL SYMMETRIES;

DISPERSIONS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; SURFACE STATES;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 84875778618     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2013.42     Document Type: Article

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