Nanostructure surface design for broadband and angle-independent antireflection

Journal of Nanophotonics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Huang, Yi Fan ^a   Chattopadhyay, Surojit ^a  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

antireflection; biomimetic; finite difference time domain; gradient refractive index; photonic

Indexed keywords

BIOMIMETICS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; INFRARED DEVICES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NANORODS; NANOTIPS; PHOTONICS; REFLECTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ANGLE OF INCIDENCE; ANTI-REFLECTION; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN CALCULATIONS; GRADIENT REFRACTIVE INDEX; NANOSTRUCTURE SURFACE; REFLECTANCE VALUES; SUB-WAVELENGTH STRUCTURES; VISIBLE AND NEAR INFRARED;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 84892741905     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19342608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JNP.7.073594     Document Type: Article

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