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Designer disordered materials with large, complete photonic band gaps
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We present designs of 2D, isotropic, disordered, photonic materials of arbitrary size with complete band gaps blocking all directions and polarizations. The designs with the largest band gaps are obtained by a constrained optimization method that starts from a hyperuniform disordered point pattern, an array of points whose number variance within a spherical sampling window grows more slowly than the volume. We argue that hyperuniformity, combined with uniform local topology and short-range geometric order, can explain how complete photonic band gaps are possible without long-range translational order. We note the ramifications for electronic and phononic band gaps in disordered materials.
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- Authors
- Florescu, M., Torquato, S., & Steinhardt, P. J.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2009-12-08
- Volume
- 106
- Issue
- 49
- Pages
- 20658-20663
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- OpenAlex
- W2134361208
- Cited by
- 503
- References
- 16
- FWCI
- 6.51
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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