Antireflective grating in the resonance domain for displays

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 648-656

  Hoshino, Testuya ^a   Itoh, Masahide ^a   Yatagai, Toyohiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIREFLECTION COATINGS; DISPLAY DEVICES; RESONANCE; VECTORS; WAVELENGTH;

MOTH-EYE STRUCTURE; RESONANCE DOMAINS; VECTOR THEORY;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 33947130364     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.000648     Document Type: Article

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