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Nature Photonics 1, 91 - 92 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2006.92

Bandgap Engineering: Quasicrystals enter third dimension

Che Ting Chan1

  1. Che Ting Chan is in the Department of Physics at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
    e-mail: phchan@ust.hk


Advances in laser-based fabrication technology have resulted in the construction of the first three-dimensional silicon photonic quasicrystals that operate in the infrared.

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