Single layer broadband anti-reflective coatings for plastic substrates produced by full wafer and roll-to-roll step-and-flash nano-imprint lithography

Materials

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 3710-3726

  Burghoorn, Marieke ^a   Roosen Melsen, Dorrit ^a   de Riet, Joris ^b   Sabik, Sami ^b   Vroon, Zeger ^a,c   Yakimets, Iryna ^b   Buskens, Pascal ^a,d  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b HOLST CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^c ZUYD UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^d Deutsches Wollforschungsinstitut   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anti reflective; Coating; Durability; Moth eye; Nano imprint lithography; Roll to roll

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATED AGEING TESTS; ANTI REFLECTIVE COATINGS; ANTI-REFLECTIVE; LARGE-SCALE PRODUCTION; MOTH EYE; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES (PET); REFLECTION OF LIGHT; ROLL TO ROLL;

COATINGS; DURABILITY; NANOIMPRINT LITHOGRAPHY; SUBSTRATES; TESTING;

PLASTIC COATINGS;

EID: 84884578195     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ma6093710     Document Type: Article

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