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Nature Materials 5, 942–945 (1 December 2006) | doi:10.1038/nmat1786

Three-dimensional silicon inverse photonic quasicrystals for infrared wavelengths

Alexandra Ledermann , Ludovico Cademartiri , Martin Hermatschweiler , Costanza Toninelli , Geoffrey A. Ozin , Diederik S. Wiersma , Martin Wegener & Georg von Freymann

Quasicrystals are a class of lattices characterized by a lack of translational symmetry. Nevertheless, the points of the lattice are deterministically arranged, obeying rotational symmetry.