Design and fabrication of a combined three-layer coating including gradient refractive index films for broadband antireflection on silicon

Microwave and Optical Technology Letters

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 256-259

  Hu, Junjie ^a   Ge, Zhongyang ^a   Piquette, Alan ^b   Mishra, Kailash ^b   Klotzkin, David ^a  

^a State University of New York   (United States)

^b OSRAM SYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

antireflective coating; cosputtering; gradient index; transfer matrix

Indexed keywords

ANTI REFLECTIVE COATINGS; BROADBAND ANTI REFLECTIONS; COSPUTTERING; GRADIENT INDEX LAYERS; GRADIENT INDEXES; GRADIENT REFRACTIVE INDEX; IMPROVE PERFORMANCE; NUMERICAL OPTIMIZATIONS;

REFRACTIVE INDEX; TRANSFER MATRIX METHOD;

COATINGS;

EID: 84888611626     PISSN: 08952477     EISSN: 10982760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mop.28060     Document Type: Article

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