Broadband optical absorption by tunable Mie resonances in silicon nanocone arrays

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Wang, Z Y ^a   Zhang, R J ^a   Wang, S Y ^a,b,c   Lu, M ^a   Chen, X ^d   Zheng, Y X ^a   Chen, L Y ^a   Ye, Z ^c   Wang, C Z ^c   Ho, K M ^c  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Key Laboratory for Information Science of Electromagnetic Waves (MoE)   (China)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF TECHNICAL PHYSICS   (China)

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EID: 84922573195     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep07810     Document Type: Article

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