Design of highly absorbing metamaterials for infrared frequencies

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 17503-17508

  Dayal, Govind ^a   Ramakrishna, S Anantha ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DIELECTRIC FILMS; METAMATERIALS;

ABSORBANCES; GEOMETRIC PARAMETER; INFRARED FREQUENCIES; LARGE BAND; MID-INFRARED WAVELENGTHS; POLARIZATION INDEPENDENT; WIDE ANGLE;

DESIGN;

EID: 84864609679     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.017503     Document Type: Article

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