TY - JOUR
T1 - Engineered disorder in photonics
AU - Yu, Sunkyu
AU - Qiu, Cheng Wei
AU - Chong, Yidong
AU - Torquato, Salvatore
AU - Park, Namkyoo
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors thank M. Klatt, J. Kim, T. Middlemas and C. Maher for their helpful suggestions on the manuscript. S. Yu and N. Park acknowledge financial support from the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) through the Global Frontier Program (2014M3A6B3063708). S. Yu was also supported by the Basic Science Research Program (2016R1A6A3A04009723). C.-W.Q. acknowledges financial support from the National Research Foundation, Prime Minister’s Office, Singapore under its Competitive Research Program (CRP award NRF-CRP15-2015-03). S. Torquato was supported by the Princeton University Innovation Fund for New Ideas in the Natural Sciences.
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PY - 2021/3
Y1 - 2021/3
N2 - Disorder, which qualitatively describes some measure of irregularities in spatial patterns, is ubiquitous in many-body systems, equilibrium and non-equilibrium states of matter, network structures, biological systems and wave–matter interactions. In photonics, the introduction of order and disorder for device applications has traditionally been treated separately. However, recent developments in nanofabrication and design strategies have enabled the use of materials that lie between the extremes of order and disorder that can yield innovative optical phenomena owing to their engineered disordered patterns. Here, we review recent achievements in the emerging field of engineered disorder in photonics by outlining milestones in the control of the spectrum, transport, wavefront and topology of light in disordered structures. We show that engineered disorder has begun to transform the traditional landscape of photonics by introducing a greatly enhanced design freedom and, hence, has great potential for the rational design of the next generation of materials.
AB - Disorder, which qualitatively describes some measure of irregularities in spatial patterns, is ubiquitous in many-body systems, equilibrium and non-equilibrium states of matter, network structures, biological systems and wave–matter interactions. In photonics, the introduction of order and disorder for device applications has traditionally been treated separately. However, recent developments in nanofabrication and design strategies have enabled the use of materials that lie between the extremes of order and disorder that can yield innovative optical phenomena owing to their engineered disordered patterns. Here, we review recent achievements in the emerging field of engineered disorder in photonics by outlining milestones in the control of the spectrum, transport, wavefront and topology of light in disordered structures. We show that engineered disorder has begun to transform the traditional landscape of photonics by introducing a greatly enhanced design freedom and, hence, has great potential for the rational design of the next generation of materials.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41578-020-00263-y
DO - 10.1038/s41578-020-00263-y
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85097425132
SN - 2058-8437
VL - 6
SP - 226
EP - 243
JO - Nature Reviews Materials
JF - Nature Reviews Materials
IS - 3
ER -