Highly tunable refractive index visible-light metasurface from block copolymer self-assembly

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Kim, Ju Young ^a   Kim, Hyowook ^a   Kim, Bong Hoon ^a   Chang, Taeyong ^a   Lim, Joonwon ^a   Jin, Hyeong Min ^a   Mun, Jeong Ho ^a   Choi, Young Joo ^a   Chung, Kyungjae ^a   Shin, Jonghwa ^a   Fan, Shanhui ^b   Kim, Sang Ouk ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPOLYMER;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PERMEABILITY; PERMITTIVITY; POLYMER; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SHRINKAGE; WAVELENGTH;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ENTROPY; FILM; LIGHT; NANOFABRICATION; OPTICS; PERMEABILITY; REFRACTION INDEX; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 84989267375     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12911     Document Type: Article

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