Design for approaching cicada-wing reflectance in low- and high-index biomimetic nanostructures

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 301-311

  Huang, Yi Fan ^a   Jen, Yi Jun ^b   Chen, Li Chyong ^c   Chen, Kuei Hsien ^c,d   Chattopadhyay, Surojit ^a  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d INSTITUTE OF ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

antireflection; biomimetic nanostructures; Cicada wing; finite difference time domain; gradient index; photonic; photovoltaic

Indexed keywords

BIOMIMETICS; CYCLOTRONS; DESIGN; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; ELECTRON CYCLOTRON RESONANCE; GERMANIUM; INDIUM; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MICROWAVE MATERIALS PROCESSING; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTIPS; PHOTONICS; REFLECTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILICA; SILICON; TIN; TIN OXIDES;

ANTI-REFLECTION; ELECTRON CYCLOTRON RESONANCE MICROWAVE PLASMA; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN MODELING; GRADIENT INDEXES; LOW REFRACTIVE INDEX; NATURAL NANOSTRUCTURE; PHOTOVOLTAIC; PHOTOVOLTAIC MATERIALS;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD;

NANOMATERIAL;

ANIMAL; BIOMIMETICS; FORELIMB; HEMIPTERA; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; PROCEDURES; REFRACTOMETRY;

ANIMALS; BIOMIMETICS; HEMIPTERA; NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTICAL PROCESSES; REFRACTOMETRY; WINGS, ANIMAL;

EID: 84921761784     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn506401h     Document Type: Article

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