Anti-reflective coatings: A critical, in-depth review

Energy and Environmental Science

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3779-3804

  Raut, Hemant Kumar ^a   Ganesh, V Anand ^a   Nair, A Sreekumaran ^a   Ramakrishna, Seeram ^a,b,c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^c KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTI REFLECTIVE COATINGS; BASIC CONCEPTS; SHARP FOCUS; STATE-OF-THE-ART FABRICATION;

BIOMIMETICS; REFLECTION; RESEARCH;

REFLECTIVE COATINGS;

COATING; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; LITERATURE REVIEW; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT; OPTIMIZATION; REFLECTANCE; RESEARCH WORK; SOLAR POWER;

EID: 80053303164     PISSN: 17545692     EISSN: 17545706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c1ee01297e     Document Type: Review

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