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Pyrolytic carbon coated black silicon

Carbon is the most well-known black material in the history of man. Throughout the centuries, carbon has been used as a black material for paintings, camouflage, and optics. Although, the techniques to make other black surfaces have evolved and become more sophisticated with time, carbon still remains one of the best black materials. Another well-known black surface is black silicon, reflecting less than 0.5% of incident light in visible spectral range but becomes a highly reflecting surface in wavelengths above 1000 nm. On the other hand, carbon absorbs at those and longer wavelengths. Thus, it is possible to combine black silicon with carbon to create an artificial material with very low reflectivity over a wide spectral range. Here we report our results on coating conformally black silicon substrate with amorphous pyrolytic carbon. We present a superior black surface with reflectance of light less than 0.5% in the spectral range of 350 nm to 2000 nm.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/614762
Date13 May 2016
CreatorsShah, Ali, Stenberg, Petri, Karvonen, Lasse, Ali, Rizwan, Honkanen, Seppo, Lipsanen, Harri, Peyghambarian, N., Kuittinen, Markku, Svirko, Yuri, Kaplas, Tommi
ContributorsUniv Arizona, Coll Opt Sci
PublisherNATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
Source SetsUniversity of Arizona
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeArticle
RightsThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Relationhttp://www.nature.com/articles/srep25922

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