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Looking Through Disorder
Photonic structures are extremely widespread in nature, and studying how light interacts with them is important. This contributes to understanding of the structures’ biological significance and also supports development of novel,...
Photonic structures are extremely widespread in nature, and studying how light interacts with them is important. This contributes to understanding of the structures’ biological significance and also supports development of novel, bio-inspired optical materials.
Natural photonic structures are, however, generally very challenging to model when one refuses to approximate their optical response to the one of simple periodic materials. The complications in describing light-matter interaction in such systems are introduced by the fact that natural structures are highly hierarchical (with features spread on different length-scales) and generally affected by disorder.
With this proposal, we want to address these challenges by developing novel analysis tools, which will be used to increase understanding of disordered photonic structures. In particular, we will develop tools for two systems: One system is the striations found on a range of flower petals, which create iridescence due to their grating-like organisation. The other system is that of the helicoidal multilayer structure found in Pollia condensata fruit. This gives rise to a colour-selective, characteristic appearance, impossible to obtain using only pigmentation.
The scientific goal of developing novel analysis tools for complex and disordered photonic structures is important in biology. Moreover, such tools will find application in the development of novel photonic structures, and they are relevant not only for natural photonics materials, but more in general, for self-assembled systems where disorder and hierarchical structuring are an inherent part of the fabrication process.
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Duración del proyecto: 24 meses
Fecha Inicio: 2016-02-24
Fecha Fin: 2018-02-28
Fecha Fin: 2018-02-28
Línea de financiación: concedida
El organismo H2020 notifico la concesión del proyecto el día 2018-02-28
Línea de financiación objetivo
El proyecto se financió a través de la siguiente ayuda:
MSCA-IF-2015-EF:
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF)
Cerrada
hace 9 años
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El presupuesto total del proyecto asciende a
183K€
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