Optically thin composite resonant absorber at the near-infrared band: A polarization independent and spectrally broadband configuration

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 14260-14267

  Boratay Alici, Kamil ^a   Burak Turhan, Adil ^a   Soukoulis, Costas M ^b,c   Ozbay, Ekmel ^a  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFRARED DEVICES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PLATE METAL;

DIELECTRIC SPACERS; NEAR INFRARED; NEAR-INFRARED BANDS; PHOTOVOLTAICS; POLARIZATION INDEPENDENT; RESONANT ABSORBER; STRUCTURE RESPONSE; SUB-WAVELENGTH; THIN ABSORBERS; UNIT CELL SIZE; WIDE ANGLE;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 79960483166     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.014260     Document Type: Article

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