Large-area broadband optical absorber fabricated by shadowing sphere lithography.

We report a large-area broadband optical absorber consisting of Ag/SiO stacked plasmonic layers fabricated on a self-assembly polystyrene sphere monolayer using the glancing angle deposition. Such an absorber can absorb more than 90% of light in the spectral range of 350 - 850 nm when the polystyrene spheres have a diameter of 750 nm. The broadband absorption is due to the overlap of localized plasmonic resonance wavelengths resulting from different patchy sizes and shapes of Ag coating on polystyrene spheres.

Switchable reflection/transmission utilizing polarization on a plasmonic structure consisting of self-assembly polystyrene spheres with silver patches.

We report a plasmonic structure for switchable reflection and transmission by polarization. The structure is composed of a hexagonal-packed polystyrene sphere array with silver patches on them. Simulations and experiments demonstrated that the conversions between reflected beams and transmitted ones can be performed when the polarization directions of incident beams vary from 0° to 90°.

Polarization-independent broadband plasmonic absorber based on a silicon-nanowire array decorated by gold nanoparticles at the optical regime.

We present a design for a plasmonic absorber that is composed of a hexagonal-packed silicon nanowires (SiNWs) array with gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) decoration. Simulations and experiments demonstrated that the proposed absorber achieves a broadband absorption. Its bandwidth over an absorption of 80% ranges from 400 nm to 1000 nm at 0 degree to 30 degrees incidence.

[Simultaneous quantitative analysis of three kinds of phenols by Elman recurrent neural network].

Elman recurrent neural network ( ERNN) was applied to study the simultaneous quantitative analysis of seriously overlapped spectra of a p-nitrophenol, o-nitrophenol and 2,4-dinitrophenol system. The multivariate linear regression (MLR) method was also applied in this study for comparison. Two programs (PERNN and PMLR) were designed to perform the calculations.