Nanostructures versus thin films in the design of antireflection coatings

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8168, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Schallenberg, Uwe B ^a  

^a BioControl Jena GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antireflection; Thin film optical coatings; Zero order grating

Indexed keywords

ANTI-REFLECTION; BINARY OPTICS; DEPOSITION TECHNOLOGY; DESIGN PRINCIPLES; EFFECTIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX; EXPERIMENTAL APPLICATION; MOTH-EYE STRUCTURE; REFERENCE LIST; THIN FILM OPTICS; VISIBLE AND NEAR INFRARED; ZERO-ORDER-GRATING;

COATINGS; DEPOSITION; DESIGN; INFRARED DEVICES; NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTICAL FILMS; OPTICS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; THIN FILMS; VAPOR DEPOSITION;

ANTIREFLECTION COATINGS;

EID: 80455174302     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.896841     Document Type: Conference Paper

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