Creating semiconductor metafilms with designer absorption spectra

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Kim, Soo Jin ^a   Fan, Pengyu ^a   Kang, Ju Hyung ^a   Brongersma, Mark L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ANTENNA; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FILM; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL PROPERTY; WAVELENGTH;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ARTICLE; ELECTRIC FIELD; FILM; LIGHT ABSORPTION; OPTICAL ROTATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR; SIMULATION;

EID: 84937576923     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8591     Document Type: Article

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