Truncated spherical voids for nearly omnidirectional optical absorption

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 20642-20649

  Wang, Min ^a   Hu, Chenggang ^a   Pu, Mingbo ^a   Huang, Cheng ^a   Zhao, Zeyu ^a   Feng, Qin ^a   Luo, Xiangang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND ELECTRONICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLARIZATION; TUNGSTEN;

ABSORBANCES; BROAD BANDS; CAVITY RESONANCES; EFFECTIVE MEDIA THEORY; INCIDENCE ANGLES; NANO-STRUCTURED; NEAR INFRARED; NORMAL INCIDENCE; POLARIZATION-INDEPENDENT; SPHERICAL VOID; STRUCTURAL PARAMETER; TM POLARIZATION; TUNGSTEN FILMS;

ABSORPTION;

NANOMATERIAL;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED;

EID: 80053963324     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.020642     Document Type: Article

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