Composite medium with silver nanoparticles as an anti-reflection optical coating

摘要

It is theoretically shown that a thin composite slab comprised of a transparent host and uniformly oriented disc-like silver nanoparticles deposited onto a glass surface can act as an anti-reflection coating. The applicability of the effective-medium model for describing the optical properties of thin heterogeneous layers with moderate volume fraction of inclusions is verified using full-wave finite-element simulations.