Ultra high-density silicon nanowires for extremely low reflection in visible regime

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 15, 2011, Pages

  Pei, Ting Hang ^a   Thiyagu, Subramani ^b   Pei, Zingway ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYTIC ETCHING; EFFECTIVE MEDIUM THEORIES; HIGH-DENSITY; INCIDENT LIGHT; SI SUBSTRATES; SILICON NANOWIRES; SPECTRAL RANGE; VERTICALLY ALIGNED;

NANOWIRES; POLYSTYRENES;

LIGHT REFLECTION;

EID: 80054982767     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3650266     Document Type: Article

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