Transparent metals for ultrabroadband electromagnetic waves.

Ren-Hao Fan, Ru-Wen Peng, Xian-Rong Huang, Jia Li, Yongmin Liu, Qing Hu, Mu Wang, Xiang Zhang

National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures and Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China.

Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) 2012 Apr 17

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Making metals transparent, which could lead to fascinating applications, has long been pursued. Here we demonstrate that with narrow slit arrays metallic plates become transparent for extremely broad bandwidths; the high transmission efficiency is insensitive to the metal thickness. This work provides a guideline to develop novel devices, including transparent conducting panels, broadband metamaterials, and antireflective solar cells. Copyright © 2012 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.

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Ren-Hao Fan, Ru-Wen Peng, Xian-Rong Huang, Jia Li, Yongmin Liu, Qing Hu, Mu Wang, Xiang Zhang. Transparent metals for ultrabroadband electromagnetic waves. Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.). 2012 Apr 17;24(15):1980-6