Ultrabroadband light absorption by a sawtooth anisotropic metamaterial slab

Nano Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1443-1447

  Cui, Yanxia ^a,b,c   Fung, Kin Hung ^b,d   Xu, Jun ^b,d   Ma, Hyungjin ^b   Jin, Yi ^a   He, Sailing ^a   Fang, Nicholas X ^b,d  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c TAIYUAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

absorber; anisotropic; metamaterials; Slow light; thin film; ultrabroadband

Indexed keywords

ABSORBER; ABSORPTIVITIES; ANISOTROPIC; ANISOTROPIC METAMATERIALS; INCIDENT ANGLES; NORMAL INCIDENCE; PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES; SAWTEETH; SHORTER WAVELENGTH; THERMAL EMITTER; ULTRA-BROADBAND;

METAMATERIALS; SLOW LIGHT;

OPTICAL ANISOTROPY;

NANOMATERIAL;

ABSORPTION; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; MATERIALS; MATERIALS TESTING; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ABSORPTION; ANISOTROPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84858264969     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl204118h     Document Type: Article

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