Optical properties of stochastic sobwavelength surface structures

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5965, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Leitel, Robert ^a   Petschulat, Jörg ^b   Kaless, Antje ^a   Schulz, Ulrike ^b   Stenzel, Olaf ^b   Kaiser, Norbert ^b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

Author keywords

Absorber; Antireflection; Effective medium theory (EMT); Polymer; Subwavelength structure

Indexed keywords

LIGHT ABSORPTION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; RANDOM PROCESSES; REFLECTION; SUBSTRATES;

ABSORBER; ANTIREFLECTION; EFFECTIVE MEDIUM THEORY (EMT); SUBWAVELENGTH STRUCTURE;

SURFACES;

EID: 33244456591     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.624363     Document Type: Conference Paper

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