Observation of trapped light within the radiation continuum

Nature

Volumn 499, Issue 7457, 2013, Pages 188-191

  Hsu, Chia Wei ^a,b   Zhen, Bo ^a   Lee, Jeongwon ^a   Chua, Song Liang ^a   Johnson, Steven G ^a   Joannopoulos, John D ^a   Soljačić, Marin ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ARTICLE; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; RADIATION DETECTION;

EID: 84880444050     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12289     Document Type: Article

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