Trapping light in open space
A new first-principles approach provides a unified foundation for studying complex band structure and light confinement in periodic media
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Paul is a Scientific Editor at IOP Publishing. After completing his PhD in plasma physics at the University of Oxford, he moved abroad to work as a researcher at École Polytechnique Paris and then Freie Universität Berlin. He joined IOP Publishing in 2024 and has been working on Reports on Progress in Physics since then. He can often be found on a Saturday morning at one of Bristol's parkruns.
A new first-principles approach provides a unified foundation for studying complex band structure and light confinement in periodic media
Read article: Trapping light in open space
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