Repurposing Blu-ray movie discs as quasi-random nanoimprinting templates for photon management

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Smith, Alexander J ^a   Wang, Chen ^a   Guo, Dongning ^a   Sun, Cheng ^a   Huang, Jiaxing ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOMATERIAL;

ALGORITHM; ERROR ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; SIMULATION;

ARTICLE; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; ELECTRODE; ENTROPY; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PHOTON; SOLAR CELL; VIDEO DISK;

EID: 84923241610     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6517     Document Type: Article

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