Harvesting light with transformation optics

Science China Information Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1-13

  Luo, Yu ^a   Zhao, RongKuo ^a   Fernandez Dominguez, Antonio I ^a   Maier, Stefan A ^a   Pendry, John B ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

broadband absorption; field enhancement; light harvesting; surface plasmons; transformation optics

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND ABSORPTION; FIELD ENHANCEMENT; LIGHT-HARVESTING; SURFACE PLASMONS; TRANSFORMATION OPTICS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HARVESTING; NANOWIRES; OPTICS; PLASMONS; SURFACES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

LIGHT;

EID: 84889250832     PISSN: 1674733X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11432-013-5031-2     Document Type: Article

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