Transparent displays enabled by resonant nanoparticle scattering

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Hsu, Chia Wei ^a,b   Zhen, Bo ^a   Qiu, Wenjun ^a   Shapira, Ofer ^a   DeLacy, Brendan G ^c   Joannopoulos, John D ^a   Soljačić, Marin ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EDGEWOOD CHEMICAL BIOLOGICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYMER; SILVER NANOPARTICLE;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PARTICULATE MATTER; SCATTERING; WAVELENGTH;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ARTICLE; BLUE LIGHT; BRIGHTNESS; FILM; IMAGE DISPLAY; LIGHT SCATTERING; PARTICLE SIZE; POLARIZATION; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THICKNESS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSPARENT DISPLAY;

EID: 84893012844     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4152     Document Type: Article

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