Disordered optical metasurfaces: from light manipulation to energy harvesting

Z Hu, C Liu, G Li - Advances in Physics: X, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Metasurfaces, the planar version of artificial structured media at sub-wavelength scale,
provide the ability to manipulate light wave in a naturally unavailable way. They offer an …

Ductile-to-brittle transition and yielding in soft amorphous materials: perspectives and open questions

T Divoux, E Agoritsas, S Aime, C Barentin, JL Barrat… - Soft Matter, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Soft amorphous materials are viscoelastic solids ubiquitously found around us, from clays
and cementitious pastes to emulsions and physical gels encountered in food or biomedical …

[HTML][HTML] Roadmap on photonic metasurfaces

SA Schulz, R Oulton, M Kenney, A Alù, I Staude… - Applied Physics …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Here we present a roadmap on Photonic metasurfaces. This document consists of a number
of perspective articles on different applications, challenge areas or technologies underlying …

Harnessing disorder for photonic device applications

H Cao, Y Eliezer - Applied Physics Reviews, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
For photonic devices, structural disorder and light scattering have long been considered
annoying and detrimental features that were best avoided or minimized. This review shows …

Self-organized lasers from reconfigurable colloidal assemblies

M Trivedi, D Saxena, WK Ng, R Sapienza, G Volpe - Nature Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Non-equilibrium assemblies, where units are able to harness available energy to perform
tasks, can often self-organize into dynamic materials that uniquely blend structure with …

Effective electromagnetic wave properties of disordered stealthy hyperuniform layered media beyond the quasistatic regime

J Kim, S Torquato - Optica, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Disordered stealthy hyperuniform dielectric composites exhibit novel electromagnetic wave
transport properties in two and three dimensions. Here, we carry out the first study of the …

Distribution of Single-Particle Resonances Determines the Plasmonic Response of Disordered Nanoparticle Ensembles

ZM Sherman, DJ Milliron, TM Truskett - ACS nano, 2024 - ACS Publications
Understanding how colloidal soft materials interact with light is crucial to the rational design
of optical metamaterials. Electromagnetic simulations are computationally expensive and …

Hyperuniformity classes of quasiperiodic tilings via diffusion spreadability

A Hitin-Bialus, CE Maher, PJ Steinhardt, S Torquato - Physical Review E, 2024 - APS
Hyperuniform point patterns can be classified by the hyperuniformity scaling exponent α> 0,
that characterizes the power-law scaling behavior of the structure factor S (k) as a function of …

Nonequilibrium hyperuniform states in active turbulence

R Backofen, AYA Altawil, M Salvalaglio… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
We demonstrate that the complex spatiotemporal structure in active fluids can feature
characteristics of hyperuniformity. Using a hydrodynamic model, we show that the transition …

Beer–Lambert law in photochemistry: A new approach

G Casasanta, F Falcini, R Garra - Journal of Photochemistry and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Obtaining a reliable formulation of the Beer–Lambert law in photochemistry requires
knowledge on the role that the space–time dependence of the absorbance plays on the …