Experiment and Theory of the Broadband Absorption by a Tapered Hyperbolic Metamaterial Array

ACS Photonics

Volumn 1, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 618-624

  Zhou, Jing ^a   Kaplan, Alexander F ^a   Chen, Long ^a   Guo, L Jay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Broadband absorption; Hyperbolic metamaterial; IR; Self mask deposition; Visible

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; IRIDIUM; PHASE MATCHING; WAVEGUIDES;

BROADBAND ABSORBERS; BROADBAND ABSORPTION; EVAPORATION PROCESS; HYPERBOLIC DISPERSION; MULTI-LAYERED STRUCTURE; PHASE MATCHING CONDITIONS; STRONG ABSORPTIONS; VISIBLE;

METAMATERIALS;

EID: 84922465200     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23304022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ph5001007     Document Type: Article

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