The hybrid concept for realization of an ultra-thin plasmonic metamaterial antireflection coating and plasmonic rainbow

Nanoscale

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 6037-6045

  Hedayati, M Keshavarz ^a   Fahr, S ^b   Etrich, C ^b   Faupel, F ^a   Rockstuhl, C ^b   Elbahri, M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIREFLECTION COATINGS; COATINGS; METAMATERIALS;

ANTI REFLECTIVE COATINGS; HYBRID CONCEPTS; MATERIAL DISPERSIONS; OBLIQUE INCIDENCE; PLASMONIC METAMATERIALS; SINGLE STRUCTURE; SUB-WAVELENGTH; TWO DIFFERENT WAVELENGTHS;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84901008829     PISSN: 20403364     EISSN: 20403372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c4nr00087k     Document Type: Article

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