Suppression of reflection peaks caused by moth-eye-type nanostructures for antireflection applications studied by using FDTD simulation

Abstract

Various nanostructures have been adopted for anti-reflection coating due to the graded refractive index. The interference between the two interfaces may sometimes cause an oscillating reflectance spectrum under certain conditions. The anti-reflection performances of a few nanostructure arrays were investigated using the finite-difference time domain (FDTD) simulation method. The study showed that the appropriate modulation of the height of nanostructures is a very effective method for suppressing the reflection peaks and flattening the reflectance spectrum.