What do lotus flowers have in common with human bones, liquid crystals with colloidal
suspensions, and white beetles with the beautiful stones of the Taj Mahal? The answer is …

The optics of correlated disordered media is a conceptually rich research topic emerging at
the interface between the physics of waves in complex media and nanophotonics. Inspired …

Photonic crystals have proven their potential and are nowadays a familiar concept. They
have been approached from many scientific and technological flanks. Among the many …

This volume provides a thorough treatment of multiple scattering of light and other
electromagnetic radiation in media composed of randomly and sparsely positioned particles …

This review discusses strategies for the synthesis of three-dimensionally ordered
macroporous (3DOM) solids (inverse opals) by colloidal crystal templating. Compositions of …

The mechanism of enhancing the light harvesting efficiency of dye-sensitized TiO2 solar
cells by coupling TiO2 inverse opals or disordered scattering layers to conventional …

It is unanimously accepted that the quantum and the classical descriptions of the physical
reality are very different, although any quantum process is" mysteriously" transformed …

Artificial opals consisting of polystyrene spheres ordered into a fcc lattice are grown with
control over the orientation and thickness. A thorough study of the formation of the …

Colloidal crystals offer a promising route for the formation of three-dimensional photonic
crystals. The primary constraint in working with these materials is the disorder present in …

We report a quantitative comparison of the photoaction spectra, short circuit current
densities, and power conversion efficiencies of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) that …