✦ LIBER ✦
Photonic Glasses: A Step Beyond White Paint
✍ Scribed by Pedro David García; Riccardo Sapienza; Cefe López
- Book ID
- 102689198
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 714 KB
- Volume
- 22
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0935-9648
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
Self‐assembly techniques are widely used to grow ordered structures such as, for example, opal‐based photonic crystals. Here, we report on photonic glasses, new disordered materials obtained via a modified self‐assembling technique. These random materials are solid thin films which exhibit rich novel light diffusion properties originating from the optical properties of their building blocks. This novel material inaugurated a wide range of nanophotonic materials with fascinating applications, such as resonant random lasers or Anderson localization.