Near-ideal optical metamaterial absorbers with super-octave bandwidth

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1517-1524

  Bossard, Jeremy A ^a   Lin, Lan ^a   Yun, Seokho ^a   Liu, Liu ^a   Werner, Douglas H ^a   Mayer, Theresa S ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

broadband; electromagnetic band gap metamaterial; emissivity control; enhanced absorption; infrared; metamaterial absorber; nanoresonator; nanostructure array; optical

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894625018     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn4057148     Document Type: Article

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