High-density hyperuniform materials can be transparent

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates that hyperuniform materials with specific scatterer arrangements can achieve transparency at high densities, unlike typical disordered materials, with potential applications in photonics and wave physics.

Contribution

It introduces the concept that hyperuniform arrangements can suppress multiple scattering, enabling transparency at densities where disordered materials are opaque, supported by simulations and theoretical analysis.

Findings

Hyperuniform scatterer distributions lead to transparency at high densities.

Numerical simulations confirm the transparency condition.

Explicit criterion for transparency derived from perturbative theory.

Abstract

We show that materials made of scatterers distributed on a stealth hyperuniform point pattern can be transparent at densities for which an uncorrelated disordered material would be opaque due to multiple scattering. The conditions for transparency are analyzed using numerical simulations, and an explicit criterion is found based on a perturbative theory. The broad applicability of the concept offers perspectives for various applications in photonics, and more generally in wave physics.