Strong enhancement of light absorption and highly directive thermal emission in graphene

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 11618-11627

  Pu, Mingbo ^a   Chen, Po ^b   Wang, Yanqin ^a   Zhao, Zeyu ^a   Wang, Changtao ^a   Huang, Cheng ^a   Hu, Chenggang ^a   Luo, Xiangang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND ELECTRONICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT RADIATION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MONOLAYERS;

ABSORPTION PEAKS; FINE STRUCTURE CONSTANTS; GRAZING INCIDENCE; NEAR INFRARED; OPTICAL AND THERMAL PROPERTIES; STRONG ENHANCEMENT; THERMAL EMISSIONS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS;

GRAPHENE;

GRAPHITE; NANOPARTICLE;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; PROCEDURES;

ABSORPTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAPHITE; HOT TEMPERATURE; LIGHT; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOPARTICLES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84878567827     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.011618     Document Type: Article

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