Precision is a virtue in science in general and nanotechnology in particular where carefully fabricated nanometer-scale devices hold great promise in both classical and quantum regimes. In such technology, unavoidable imperfections often impose severe performance limits but, in certain cases, disorder may be invoked to enable new functionalities. In this talk, we will review a few remarkable disor dered-driven functionalities in different fields of nanotechnology such as photonics, phononics and optomechanics where fabrication imperfection can be exploited to enhance the light-matter interaction. In addition, we will discuss how disorder can be used, for example, to mediate the optomechanical coupling, thus providing a new tool set for optomechanics.

Resumen del trabajo presentado a la Spanish Conference on Nanophotonics (Conferencia Española de Nanofotónica-CEN), celebrada en Donostia-San Sebastián (España) del 3 al 5 de octubre de 2018.

Peer reviewed