Photonic quasicrystals are specially designed aperiodic materials that possess long-range order and are capable of transmitting light. Contrary to intuition, introducing disorder can be used to enhance the propagation of light through such labyrinth structures.
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Vardeny, Z., Nahata, A. Disorder-enhanced light transport. Nature Photon 5, 453–454 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2011.173
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