Events for UCF Researchers and the UCF Research Community

Friday, November 13, 2026

  • CREOL Fall Colloquium: Mikael Rechtsman, Penn State University

    CREOL: 102 and Virtual

    Mikael RechtsmanPhysics Department, Penn State University Tile: Two experiments on aperiodic photonic crystals Abstract: Photonic crystals -- transparent periodic dielectric structures -- have been called "semiconductors for light" in the sense that photons propagate through them much as electrons propagate through crystalline solids.  In the first part of my talk, I will show how straining a photonic crystal can make photons …

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