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Advances in OptoElectronics
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 313984, 11 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/313984
Review Article
Dirac Dispersion in Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystals
Department of Physics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Received 6 July 2012; Accepted 6 September 2012
Academic Editor: Pavel A. Belov
Copyright © 2012 C. T. Chan et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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