Visible and near infrared, wide-angle, anti-reflection coatings with self-cleaning on glass

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 969-977

  Camargo, Kelly Cristine ^a   Michels, Alexandre Fassini ^b   Rodembusch, Fabiano Severo ^a   Kuhn, Matheus Francioni ^a   Horowitz, Flavio ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAXIAS DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTI-REFLECTION; GLASS SURFACES; GRADED INDEX; INTERFERENCE COATINGS; LOW HYSTERESIS; MULTISCALE SURFACE; SELF-CLEANING PROPERTIES; SILICA NANOPARTICLES; THREE-LAYER; TRANSPARENT SURFACES; TWO-LAYER APPROACH; VISIBLE AND NEAR INFRARED; VISIBLE REGION; WATER CONTACT ANGLE;

COATINGS; CONTACT ANGLE; GLASS; HYSTERESIS;

CLEANING;

EID: 84866772383     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.2.000969     Document Type: Article

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