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The Reflection Of Light From Periodic Conducting Interfaces, Christian Lange
The Reflection Of Light From Periodic Conducting Interfaces, Christian Lange
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It is known that carbon-nanotube (CNT) forests, nanopillar arrays, and other high aspect-ratio conducting and semi-conducting nanostructures can have extremely low reflectance in a wide range of wavelengths, and that reflectance begins to rise at long wavelengths. The mechanism for this behavior is poorly understood. It has been shown that the reflectance of CNT forest varies with the morphology of the forest, which indicates that the interface of such a material may play a primary role in its reflectance and absorptance.
Simulations of the reflection of light from arrays of conducting nanorods using commercial finite-difference-time-domain software predict a similar increase …