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Using Microwave and Macroscopic Samples of Dielectric Solids to Study the Photonic Properties of Disordered Photonic Bandgap Materials
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Density of states functions for photonic crystals

R C McPhedran1, L C Botten, J McOrist

  • 1CUDOS & School of Physics, University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia.

Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
|March 5, 2004
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