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Thin Film Optical Coatings

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Several current interesting optical coatings are introduced. Coatings with reflectance greater than 100 % have been realized by using gain layer with negative extinction coefficient. A useful coating area of filters for DWDM has been enlarged with the uniformity better than ±0.003 % over an area of 50 mm in diameter and better than ±0.0006 % over a 20 mm in diameter by using etching technique on the depositing layers with oxygen ion and shaping tooling factor technique. Antireflection coatings with characteristics of hydrophobic, hydrophilic, residual color to decorate solar cells and blackness has been utilized in design and fabricated. The advantages of coatings with negative refractive index layer have been illustrated. Five advanced monitoring methods to achieve the coating as the design have been proposed and proved better than conventional methods.

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Lee, CC. (2015). Thin Film Optical Coatings. In: Lee, CC. (eds) The Current Trends of Optics and Photonics. Topics in Applied Physics, vol 129. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9392-6_1

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