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Photonic Materials

The advantages of transmitting light signals instead of electrical ones have led to ultrapure glass, semiconductor alloys only a few atoms thick and "nonlinear" materials that are now revolutionizing communications

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 255 Issue 4This article was originally published with the title “Photonic Materials” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 255 No. 4 (), p. 146
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1086-146