Conformal dual-band near-perfectly absorbing mid-infrared metamaterial coating

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 4641-4647

  Jiang, Zhi Hao ^a   Yun, Seokho ^a   Toor, Fatima ^b   Werner, Douglas H ^c   Mayer, Theresa S ^c  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

absorber; conformal; metamaterial; mid infrared; multiband; nanoresonator; reflection suppression

Indexed keywords

ABSORBER; CONFORMAL; MID-INFRARED; MULTIBAND; NANORESONATOR; REFLECTION SUPPRESSION;

ABSORPTION; COATINGS; GOLD; INFRARED DEVICES; POLYIMIDES; SURFACES;

METAMATERIALS;

GOLD; METAL;

ABSORPTION; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; RADIATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ABSORPTION; ALGORITHMS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GOLD; MATERIALS TESTING; METALS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; RADIATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED;

EID: 79959801459     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn2004603     Document Type: Article

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