Perfect absorbers on curved surfaces and their potential applications

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 18370-18376

  Alaee, Rasoul ^a   Menzel, Christoph ^a   Rockstuhl, Carsten ^a   Lederer, Falk ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

BACK-SCATTERED; BLACK HOLES; CURVED SURFACES; NANOSTRUCTURED THIN FILM; NOVEL APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL RESPONSE; PERFECT ABSORBER; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS;

METAMATERIALS;

EID: 84864575356     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.018370     Document Type: Article

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