Reduced reflection from roughened hyperbolic metamaterial

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 14956-14961

  Narimanov, E E ^a   Li, H ^b   Barnakov, Yu A ^b   Tumkur, T U ^b   Noginov, M A ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; STEALTH TECHNOLOGY;

ALUMINA MEMBRANES; BROAD BANDS; DENSITY OF PHOTONIC STATE; HIGH-EFFICIENCY SOLAR CELLS; ROUGHENED SURFACES; SILVER NANOWIRES;

METAMATERIALS;

NANOPARTICLE;

CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; PROCEDURES; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ARTICLE; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOPARTICLES; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84879325049     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.014956     Document Type: Article

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