Near-field optical investigation of Hyperuniform Disordered photonic structures

Located in-between random structures and perfectly ordered photonic crystals, there is a special class of disordered heterostructures called hyperuniform disordered (HuD) photonic structures. These materials, due to the presence of a photonic bandgap, combine the advantages of disordered systems and ordered systems: here, we underline and experimentally prove all these advantages by means of the first near-field optical characterization of HuD photonic structures in the near IR.