Toward perfect antireflection coatings: Numerical investigation

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 16, 2002, Pages 3075-3083

  Dobrowolski, J A ^a   Poitras, Daniel ^a   Ma, Penghui ^a   Vakil, Himanshu ^b   Acree, Michael ^c  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY   (United States)

^c Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; NUMERICAL METHODS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SUBSTRATES;

RESTSTRAHLEN BANDS;

ANTIREFLECTION COATINGS;

EID: 0036603274     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.003075     Document Type: Article

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