Suppression of backscattered diffraction from sub-wavelength 'moth-eye' arrays

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-11

  Stavroulakis, Petros I ^a   Boden, Stuart A ^a   Johnson, Thomas ^a   Bagnall, Darren M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN;

ANGLES OF INCIDENCE; ANTI-REFLECTION; BACK-SCATTERED; DIFFRACTION ORDERS; DOMAIN STRUCTURE; HEXAGONAL ARRAYS; MOTHEYE; NANOSCALE FEATURES; POWER REDUCTIONS; REFLECTION OF LIGHT; ROTATIONAL SYMMETRIES; STEALTH PROPERTY; SUB-WAVELENGTH;

DIFFRACTION;

ION; SILICON;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOMIMETICS; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EYE; FORELIMB; FOURIER ANALYSIS; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; MOTH; OPTICS; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STATISTICAL MODEL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BIOMIMETICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EYE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IONS; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOTHS; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SILICON; WING;

EID: 84872714704     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.000001     Document Type: Article

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