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Nature Materials 2, 648 - 649 (2003)
doi:10.1038/nmat987

Photonic crystals: Towards rational material design

Eli Yablonovitch1

  1. Eli Yablonovitch is at the UCLA Electrical Engineering Department, Los Angeles, California, 90095-1594, USA. e-mail: eliy@ee.ucla.edu


Rational design is an oft-touted dream in materials science. The discovery of two new classes of photonic bandgap crystals may herald the systematic mathematical design of new materials.

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