Turn a highly-reflective metal into an omnidirectional broadband absorber by coating a purely-dielectric thin layer of grating

Progress in Electromagnetics Research

Volumn 134, Issue , 2012, Pages 95-109

  Zhang, Feng ^a   Yang, Liu ^a   Jin, Yi ^a   He, Sailing ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COATINGS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; GERMANIUM; METALS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SOLAR ABSORBERS; SUBSTRATES; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; WAVEGUIDES;

ABSORPTION CHARACTERISTICS; BROADBAND ABSORBERS; DIELECTRIC GRATING; FABRY-PEROT RESONANCES; GERMANIUM NANOWIRES; METALLIC NANOSTRUCTURE; METALLIC SUBSTRATE; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 84870263000     PISSN: 10704698     EISSN: 15598985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2528/PIER12102808     Document Type: Article

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