Flexible thin-film black gold membranes with ultrabroadband plasmonic nanofocusing for efficient solar vapour generation

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Bae, Kyuyoung ^a   Kang, Gumin ^a   Cho, Suehyun K ^b   Park, Wounjhang ^b   Kim, Kyoungsik ^a   Padilla, Willie J ^c  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

^c Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM OXIDE; NANOSHELL; NANOWIRE; PHOSPHORIC ACID; SURFACE WATER;

ABSORPTION; GOLD; MEMBRANE; NANOPARTICLE; POLARIZATION; SOLAR POWER; SOLAR RADIATION; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; WATER VAPOR;

ADIABATICITY; ARTICLE; CONTACT ANGLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRIC FIELD; ENERGY ABSORPTION; EVAPORATION; FILM; FLEXIBLE THIN FILM BLACK GOLD MEMBRANE; HEATING; HYDROPHILICITY; ILLUMINATION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MEMBRANE; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; NANOPORE; POLARIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION ABSORPTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION; SOLAR VAPOR; SURFACE TENSION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VAPOR; WATER FLOW; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 84986919218     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10103     Document Type: Article

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