Broadband and wide-angle distributed Bragg reflectors based on amorphous germanium films by glancing angle deposition

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 20576-20581

  Leem, Jung Woo ^a   Yu, Jae Su ^a  

^a Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTORS; FILMS; GERMANIUM; REFLECTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILICON WAFERS; VAPORS;

A-CENTER; AMORPHOUS GERMANIUM; DBR; GLANCING ANGLE DEPOSITION; INCIDENT LIGHT; INFRARED WAVELENGTHS; LOW-REFRACTIVE-INDEX MATERIALS; OPTICAL REFLECTANCE; R VALUE; RIGOROUS COUPLED WAVE ANALYSIS; SI WAFER; VAPOR FLUXES;

AMORPHOUS FILMS;

GERMANIUM;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GERMANIUM; LENSES; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 84865759663     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.020576     Document Type: Article

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