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Quasicrystals

Making invisible materials

Nature Photonics volume 9, pages 422–424 (2015)Cite this article

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All-dielectric photonic quasicrystals may act as zero-refractive-index homogeneous materials despite their lack of translational symmetry and periodicity, stretching wavelengths to infinity and offering applications in light wavefront sculpting and optical cloaking.

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Figure 1: Quasicrystals provide long-range order without structural periodicity.
Figure 2: Quasicrystals with Dirac cone dispersion at k = 0 act as zero-effective-index materials.

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  1. Svetlana V. Boriskina is in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA,

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