Author(s)

Yulun Wu¹, Shimeng Feng^2*

¹School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
²Physics Department of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.

We mainly investigated the effect of metallic wire grid on its optical property. At first, we give one simple model to deduce an expression which can describe the relationship of the optical property with the width of metallic wire grid. This expression could be used to calculate the reflectance of the metallic wire grid. We also give the corresponding computer simulation. Our simulation shows that the reflectance would increase when the width of metallic wire grid increase. The wider the metallic wire grid is, the higher the reflectance is. The reflectance would reach the maximum value only when the width is over the free path of electronic.

Metallic Wire Grid, Mean Free Path, Reflectivity

Wu, Y. and Feng, S. (2016) The Effect of Nanometer Size Effect on the Optical Property of Metallic Wire Grid. Optics and Photonics Journal, 6, 269-274. doi: 10.4236/opj.2016.610027.