Engineering of light confinement in strongly scattering disordered media

Nature Materials

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 720-725

  Riboli, Francesco ^a,b,e   Caselli, Niccolò ^a,b   Vignolini, Silvia ^a,b,e,f   Intonti, Francesca ^a,b   Vynck, Kevin ^a,e,g   Barthelemy, Pierre ^a,e,h   Gerardino, Annamaria ^c   Balet, Laurent ^d   Li, Lianhe H ^d   Fiore, Andrea ^d,e,i   Gurioli, Massimo ^a,b   Wiersma, Diederik S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^h DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

ⁱ EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES;

LIGHT CONFINEMENTS; LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTIONS; PHOTONIC APPLICATION; PHOTONIC MATERIALS; PHOTONIC STRUCTURE; RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; TRANSMISSION CHANNELS; WAVE FRONT SHAPING;

SCATTERING;

EID: 84903135343     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3966     Document Type: Article

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