Band gap tunability of lead mixed halide perovskites makes them promising candidates for various applications in optoelectronics. Here we use the localization landscape theory to reveal that the static disorder due to iodide:bromide compositional alloying contributes at most 3 meV to the Urbach energy. Our modeling reveals that the reason for this small contribution is due to the small effective masses in perovskites, resulting in a natural length scale of around 20 nm for the “effective confining potential” for electrons and holes, with short-range potential fluctuations smoothed out. The increase in Urbach energy across the compositional range agrees well with our optical absorption measurements. We model systems of sizes up to 80 nm in three dimensions, allowing us to accurately reproduce the experimentally observed absorption spectra of perovskites with halide segregation. Our results suggest that we should look beyond static contribution and focus on the dynamic temperature dependent contribution to the Urbach energy.

Important physics effects in contemporary and future devices for magnetic fusion experiments depend on the interface with a 'composite' plasma, consisting of multiple ion species and heterogeneous dust with variable charge. A selection of processes related to dust and occurring in existing tokamaks is presented, focusing on new results on the physics of isolated micrometric ferromagnetic dust particles in the SOL of a tokamak with a metallic vessel of circular meridian cross section. Such particles in particular, in addition to usual forces, are subjected to magnetic dipole interaction with the ambient magnetic field and to strong evaporation effects at high surface temperatures. Moreover, preliminary results of inclusion of gaps in the vessel geometry suggest the possibility of dust trapping. Also reported are the effects of nanometre dust on plasma when the dust is to be considered as a plasma component.

We report here on the optical response of elliptical gold particles arranged in a rectangular lattice on glass and probed at non-normal incidence in reflection using spectroscopic Mueller matrix ellipsometry in the energy range 0.73 − 5.9 eV. The surface plasmon resonances, reshaped near the Rayleigh anomalies, are mapped out by full azimuthal rotation of the sample. The experimental Mueller matrices are discussed and interpretation is supported by finite element modelling of the Mueller-Jones matrix elements, which allows for identification of the dipolar and multipolar responses observed in the experimental spectra. The data show a strong polarization conversion around the surface plasmon resonances as a function of the azimuthal angle of incidence, also reshaped near the Rayleigh lines. An effective strong circular diattenuation is observed from the recorded Mueller matrix. We further argue the importance of Mueller matrix ellipsometry for metrology in the manufacture of metasurfaces, for understanding the effect of the lattice in metasurface design, and finally in validating computational methods.