Project description
Learning more about exotic light-scattering materials helps us to harness them
Like a bunch of pinballs reverberating around a pinball machine and bouncing off everything including each other, photons entering disordered materials are scattered several times before leaving the materials in random directions. The "dance" can continue, with the random rays interfering once again with each other. This amazing light show, if harnessed, can be used to develop innovative photonics devices. Until now, characterisation enabling the rational prediction of the properties of disordered materials and their subsequent design was an important roadblock. The EU-funded MALDIP project plans to apply machine-learning techniques and numerical simulations to get to the bottom of things.
Fields of science
Programme(s)
Funding Scheme
MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)
Coordinator
CB2 1TN Cambridge
United Kingdom
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