Dispersion characteristics of silicon nanorod based carpet cloaks

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 25, 2010, Pages 25746-25756

  Tamma, Venkata A ^a   Blair, John ^b   Summers, Christopher J ^b   Park, Wounjhang ^a  

^a University of Colorado   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CONFORMAL MAPPING; DISPERSIONS; NANORODS; TWO DIMENSIONAL; WAVEGUIDES;

BROAD BANDWIDTHS; CUT-OFF; CUTOFF WAVELENGTHS; DIELECTRIC LAYER; DISPERSION CHARACTERISTICS; HIGH INDEX; LOW LOSS; NANOROD ARRAYS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY; SEMICONDUCTOR THIN FILMS; WAVEGUIDE DISPERSIONS;

NEAR FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOTUBES; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 78650074337     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.025746     Document Type: Article

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