Buried nanoantenna arrays: Versatile antireflection coating

Nano Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 6040-6047

  Kabiri, Ali ^a   Girgis, Emad ^a,b   Capasso, Federico ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Buried nanoantenna array; metasurfaces; plasmonic antireflection coating; plasmonic filters; plasmonic matching layer; Smith Chart

Indexed keywords

MATCHING LAYER; METASURFACES; NANOANTENNA ARRAYS; PLASMONIC FILTERS; SMITH CHART;

ANTIREFLECTION COATINGS; INFRARED DETECTORS; PLASMONS;

COATINGS;

NANOMATERIAL; NANOPARTICLE; SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; LIGHT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICS; SURFACE PROPERTY;

LIGHT; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; SILICON; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84890331416     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl403257a     Document Type: Article

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