Spherically shaped micro-structured antireflective surfaces

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 21590-21597

  Bouffaron, R ^a,b   Escoubas, L ^a,b   Brissonneau, V ^a,d   Simon, J J ^a,b   Berginc, G ^d   Torchio, Ph ^a,b   Flory, F ^a,c   Masclet, Ph ^e  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c Ecole Centrale Marseille   (France)

^d Laser Solutions Unit   (France)

^e Delegation Generale pour l'Armement   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFACES (MATERIALS); SPHERES;

ANTI-REFLECTIVE; ANTIREFLECTIVE SURFACES; INFRARED RANGE; PERIODIC ARRAYS; PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS; RESONANCE DOMAINS; SILICON SUBSTRATES; STRUCTURED INTERFACES;

MICROSTRUCTURE;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SILICON; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 72449188160     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.021590     Document Type: Article

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