Polarization-independent broad-band nearly perfect absorbers in the visible regime

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 415-424

  Lin, Chia Hung ^a   Chern, Ruey Lin ^b   Lin, Hoang Yan ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC DEVICES; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC LOSSES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; POLARIZATION; RESONANCE; SURFACE WAVES;

ABSORBANCES; BROAD BANDS; CAVITY RESONANCES; DIELECTRIC LAYER; ELECTRIC FIELD PATTERNS; ENHANCED ABSORPTION; LAYERED STRUCTURES; LOSSY DIELECTRICS; LOW LOSS; PERFECT ABSORBER; POLARIZATION-INDEPENDENT; POWER-LOSSES; TIME-AVERAGED; TM POLARIZATION;

ABSORPTION;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 78751558969     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.000415     Document Type: Article

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