Large-area, Lithography-free super absorbers and color filters at visible frequencies using ultrathin metallic films

ACS Photonics

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 183-188

  Li, Zhongyang ^a   Butun, Serkan ^a   Aydin, Koray ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

color filters; flat optics; lithography free; metal insulator metal; super absorbers; ultrathin films

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CAVITY RESONATORS; COLOR; FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT; LIGHT EMISSION; LITHOGRAPHY; METAL INSULATOR BOUNDARIES; METALLIC FILMS; METALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PLASMONS; SEMICONDUCTOR INSULATOR BOUNDARIES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; ULTRATHIN FILMS;

ASYMMETRIC FABRY-PEROT CAVITIES; COLOR FILTERS; FABRICATION IMPERFECTIONS; FLAT OPTICS; METAL INSULATOR METALS; OPTICAL FUNCTIONALITIES; SUPER ABSORBERS; ULTRATHIN METALLIC FILMS;

MIM DEVICES;

EID: 84923324684     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23304022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ph500410u     Document Type: Article

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