Multiscale ommatidial arrays with broadband and omnidirectional antireflection and antifogging properties by sacrificial layer mediated nanoimprinting

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 1305-1314

  Raut, Hemant Kumar ^a,b,e   Dinachali, Saman Safari ^b,e   Loke, Yee Chong ^b   Ganesan, Ramakrishnan ^c   Ansah Antwi, Kwadwo Konadu ^a,b   Góra, Aleksander ^a   Khoo, Eng Huat ^d   Ganesh, V Anand ^e   Saifullah, Mohammad S M ^b   Ramakrishna, Seeram ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^c BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE   (India)

^d INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

^e SINGAPORE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN   (Singapore)

Author keywords

biomimetics; hierarchical patterning; moth's eye antireflection; nanoimprint lithography; superhydrophobicity

Indexed keywords

BIOMIMETICS; FABRICATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; NANOIMPRINT LITHOGRAPHY; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SUPERHYDROPHOBICITY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ANTI-REFLECTION; ANTIFOGGING PROPERTIES; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN SIMULATIONS; HIERARCHICAL PATTERNING; LARGE-AREA SUBSTRATES; MULTIFUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL PERFORMANCE; OPTIMUM DIMENSIONS;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

POLYCARBONATE; POLYCARBOXYLATE CEMENT;

ANIMAL; BIOMIMETICS; CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; CHEMISTRY; EYE; HUMIDITY; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; MOTH; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; BIOMIMETICS; EYE; HUMIDITY; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; MOTHS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL PROCESSES; POLYCARBOXYLATE CEMENT;

EID: 84923386276     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn5051272     Document Type: Article

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