Carbon aerogel: A new nonreflective material for the infrared

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 22, 2000, Pages 3940-3944

  Meier, Steven R ^a   Korwin, Michelle L ^a   Merzbacher, Celia I ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROGELS; GAS ADSORPTION; INFRARED RADIATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CARBON AEROGELS;

CARBON;

EID: 0000781171     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.003940     Document Type: Article

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