Self-cleaning antireflective optical coatings

Nano Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 5329-5335

  Guldin, Stefan ^a,f   Kohn, Peter ^a   Stefik, Morgan ^e   Song, Juho ^b   Divitini, Giorgio ^c   Ecarla, Fanny ^d   Ducati, Caterina ^c   Wiesner, Ulrich ^b   Steiner, Ullrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Cornell University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d CSM Instruments   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^f EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

antireflection; Antireflective coatings; optical coatings; photocatalysis; self cleaning

Indexed keywords

ANTI REFLECTIVE COATINGS; ANTI-REFLECTION; ANTIREFLECTIVE OPTICAL COATINGS; FLEXIBLE PLASTIC SUBSTRATES; HIGH REFRACTIVE INDEX; NANOPOROUS THIN FILMS; SELF-CLEANING; TRANSPARENT SUBSTRATE;

CLEANING; CONDENSATION REACTIONS; COPOLYMERS; NANOCRYSTALS; OPTICAL COATINGS; PHOTOCATALYSIS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILICA; SOL-GELS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ANTIREFLECTION COATINGS;

NANOMATERIAL; POLYMER; SILICON DIOXIDE; TITANIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; REFRACTOMETRY; SOLAR ENERGY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; POLYMERS; REFRACTOMETRY; SILICON DIOXIDE; SOLAR ENERGY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TITANIUM;

EID: 84887852322     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl402832u     Document Type: Article

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