Review of plasmonic nanocomposite metamaterial absorber

Materials

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1221-1248

  Hedayati, Mehdi Keshavarz ^a   Faupel, Franz ^a   Elbahri, Mady ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Metamaterials; Nanocomposite; Perfect absorber; Plasmonic

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894857954     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ma7021221     Document Type: Review

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