A Full-Visible-Spectrum Invisibility Cloak for Mesoscopic Metal Wires

Autor: Sang-Woo Kim, Byeong Wan An, Yoon Jong Moon, Byung Gwan Hyun, Eunjin Cho, Sun Kyung Kim, Jang Ung Park
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Nano Letters. 18:3865-3872
ISSN: 1530-6992
1530-6984
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b01157
Popis: Structured metals can sustain a very large scattering cross-section that is induced by localized surface plasmons, which often has an adverse effect on their use as transparent electrodes in displays, touch screens, and smart windows due to an issue of low clarity. Here, we report a broadband optical cloaking strategy for the network of mesoscopic metal wires with submicrometer to micrometer diameters, which is exploited for manufacturing and application of high-clarity metal-wires-based transparent electrodes. We prepare electrospun Ag wires with 300–1800 nm in diameter and perform a facile surface oxidation process to form Ag/Ag2O core/shell heterogeneous structures. The absorptive Ag2O shell, together with the coating of a dielectric cover, leads to the cancellation of electric multipole moments in Ag wires, thereby drastically suppressing plasmon-mediated scattering over the full visible spectrum and rendering Ag wires to be invisible. Simultaneously with the effect of invisibility, the transmittance ...
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