Design of hemi-urchin shaped ZnO nanostructures for broadband and wide-angle antireflection coatings

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 297-305

  Ko, Yeong Hwan ^a   Yu, Jae Su ^a  

^a Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTIREFLECTION COATINGS; COATINGS; LIGHT REFLECTION; OPTIMIZATION; PERIODIC STRUCTURES; REFLECTION; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SILICON; ZINC COATINGS; ZINC OXIDE;

ANGLE-DEPENDENT; ANTIREFLECTIVE CHARACTERISTICS; ANTIREFLECTIVE PROPERTIES; BROAD SPECTRUM; HYDROTHERMALLY; LIGHT INCIDENCE; ONE DIMENSIONAL (1D) NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTIMIZATION PROCESS; RIGOROUS COUPLED WAVE ANALYSIS; SI SUBSTRATES; STRUCTURAL ARCHITECTURE; SUB-WAVE LENGTH GRATING; SURFACE REFLECTIONS; VERTICALLY ALIGNED; ZNO; ZNO NANOROD; ZNO NANOSTRUCTURES;

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EID: 78651366833     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.000297     Document Type: Article

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