@article {2315,
	title = {Scattering of electromagnetic waves by nearly periodic structures},
	journal = {Physical Review B},
	volume = {61},
	year = {2000},
	pages = {8099-8107},
	abstract = {<p>We present a method, based on the coherent potential approximation, for the treatment of disorder in photonic crystals. We apply the method to the study of light absorption by a three-dimensional array of plasma spheres distributed randomly in a host dielectric medium. We find that the effect of disorder on the absorbance of a thick slab of the material consisting of many layers of spheres is much less pronounced than in the corresponding case of a single layer of spheres.</p>},
	author = {A. Modinos and V. Yannopapas and N. Stefanou}
}
