Minimizing light reflection from dielectric textured surfaces

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 770-777

  Deinega, Alexei ^a   Valuev, Ilya ^b   Potapkin, Boris ^a   Lozovik, Yurii ^c  

^a Kinetic Technologies Ltd   (Russian Federation)

^b JOINT INSTITUTE FOR HIGH TEMPERATURES   (Russian Federation)

^c INSTITUTE OF SPECTROSCOPY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; GEOMETRY; SURFACES; TEXTURES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ANTIREFLECTIVE PROPERTIES; ASYMPTOTIC BEHAVIORS; EFFECTIVE MEDIUM THEORIES; GEOMETRIC OPTICS APPROXIMATION; GEOMETRICAL PARAMETERS; LIMITING CASE; SHORT WAVELENGTHS; TEXTURE GEOMETRY; TEXTURED SURFACE;

LIGHT REFLECTION;

EID: 79958846364     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.28.000770     Document Type: Article

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