title: Photonic glasses: a step beyond white paint.
abstract: Self-assembly techniques are widely used to grow ordered structures such as, for example, opal-based photonic crystals. Here, we report on photonic glasses, new disordered materials obtained via a modified self-assembling technique. These random materials are solid thin films which exhibit rich novel light diffusion properties originating from the optical properties of their building blocks. This novel material inaugurated a wide range of nanophotonic materials with fascinating applications, such as resonant random lasers or Anderson localization.
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (CSIC), Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Pedro David
authors.initials: PD
authors.lastname: García
authors.forename: Riccardo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sapienza
authors.forename: Cefe
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: López
mesh_terms: D003460:Crystallization; D005898:Glass / Q000737:chemistry*; D008027:Light; D049329:Nanostructures / Q000737:chemistry*; D036103:Nanotechnology / Q000379:methods*; D055095:Optics and Photonics; D017785:Photons