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Photonic Crystals: Semiconductors of Light

Nanostructured materials containing ordered arrays of holes could lead to an optoelectronics revolution, doing for light what silicon did for electrons

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 285 Issue 6This article was originally published with the title “Photonic Crystals: Semiconductors of Light” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 285 No. 6 (), p. 46
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1201-46