Films with Tunable Graded Refractive Index Consisting of Spontaneously Formed Mesoporous Silica Nanopinnacles

ACS Photonics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 47-52

  Kitamura, Shin ^a   Kanno, Yosuke ^b   Watanabe, Masatoshi ^a   Takahashi, Masahiko ^a   Kuroda, Kazuyuki ^b   Miyata, Hirokatsu ^a  

^a CANON INC   (Japan)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

antireflection; film; index matching; mesoporous; moth eye; subwavelength structure

Indexed keywords

ANTIREFLECTION COATINGS; COATINGS; FILMS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MESOPOROUS MATERIALS; REACTIVE ION ETCHING; SILICA; SUBSTRATES;

ANTI-REFLECTION; INDEX MATCHING; MESOPOROUS; MOTH EYE; SUB-WAVELENGTH STRUCTURES;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

EID: 84901404457     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23304022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ph400036a     Document Type: Article

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