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Quasicrystalline structures and uses thereof

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OSTI ID:1343767
This invention relates generally to the field of quasicrystalline structures. In preferred embodiments, the stopgap structure is more spherically symmetric than periodic structures facilitating the formation of stopgaps in nearly all directions because of higher rotational symmetries. More particularly, the invention relates to the use of quasicrystalline structures for optical, mechanical, electrical and magnetic purposes. In some embodiments, the invention relates to manipulating, controlling, modulating and directing waves including electromagnetic, sound, spin, and surface waves, for pre-selected range of wavelengths propagating in multiple directions.
Research Organization:
The Trustees of Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
FG02-91ER40671
Assignee:
The Trustees of Princeton University
Patent Number(s):
9,567,420
Application Number:
14/059,003
OSTI ID:
1343767
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (14)

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Metallic Phase with Long-Range Orientational Order and No Translational Symmetry journal November 1984
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Light Transport through the Band-Edge States of Fibonacci Quasicrystals journal February 2003
Band-structure gap and electron transport in metallic quasicrystals and crystals journal June 1993
Absolute photonic band gaps in 12-fold symmetric photonic quasicrystals journal February 2001
Photoluminescent silicon nanocrystals synthesized by reactive laser ablation journal February 2006
Defect and transmission properties of two-dimensional quasiperiodic photonic band-gap systems journal February 1999
Complete band gaps in two-dimensional photonic quasicrystals journal October 2009
Photonic-bandgap microcavities in optical waveguides journal November 1997
Block-iterative frequency-domain methods for Maxwell's equations in a planewave basis journal January 2001
Resonant add-drop filter based on a photonic quasicrystal journal January 2005
Effective-medium theory for weakly nonlinear composites journal November 1988

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