Metal/dielectric/metal sandwich film for broadband reflection reduction

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Jen, Yi Jun ^a   Lakhtakia, Akhlesh ^b   Lin, Meng Jie ^a   Wang, Wei Hao ^a   Wu, Huang Ming ^a   Liao, Hung Sheng ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; IMPEDANCE; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY;

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LENSES; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; METALS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84876515473     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01672     Document Type: Article

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