Experimental Observation of Photonic Bandgaps in Hyperuniform Disordered Materials

Weining Man, Marian Florescu, Kazue Matsuyama, Polin Yadak, Salvatore Torquato, Paul J. Steinhardt, Paul Chaikin
2010 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 2010   unpublished
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.
doi:10.1364/cleo.2010.cths2 fatcat:dsqrlpmyizh65gab5sz6eegszm