Title :
Experimental observation of photonic bandgaps in hyperuniform disordered material
Author :
Man, Weining ; Florescu, Marian ; Matsuyama, Kazue ; Yadak, Polin ; Torquato, Salvatore ; Steinhardt, Paul ; Chaikin, Paul
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys. & Astron., San Francisco State Univ., San Francisco, CA, USA
Abstract :
We report the first experimental demonstration of photonic bandgaps (PBGs) in 2D hyperuniform disordered materials and show that is possible to obtain isotropic, disordered, photonic materials of arbitrary size with complete PBGs.
Keywords :
Crystalline materials; Dielectric materials; Lattices; Mie scattering; Optical materials; Optical scattering; Particle scattering; Photonic band gap; Physics; Polarization;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
