Amorphous Nanophotonics

Carsten Rockstuhl is Junior-Professor for Theoretical Nanooptics, Univ. Jena.Toralf Scharf is Senior scientist at the Optics and Photonics Laboratory, Institute of Microengineering, EPFL, Head of Research for Information Optics in the Applied Optics Group at the Institute of Microtechnology, Neuchâtel

• Dielectric amorphous photonics materials and structures.- Photonic quasi-crystals.- Solar cells with scattering and nanostructures.- Disordered photonic crystals.- Light localization in dielectric media.- Amorphous plasmonics.- Fabrication methods.- Structural characterization techniques.- Numerical means to describe optics in amorphous media.- Analytical and quasi-analytical treatment.- Homogenization techniques and the problem of how to deal with different length scales.- Electromagnetic characterization techniques.- New physical (electromagnetic) phenomena emerging due to irregularities of nanostructures.- Implementing applications of fabricated structures.- Analogies to other branches of physics.