Enhanced Diffuse Reflectance and Microstructure Properties of Hybrid Titanium Dioxide Nanocomposite Coating

Abstract In this research, we studied enhanced diffuse reflectance that can be achieved by excitations of multiple-scattering in a hybrid micro-structured titanium dioxide coating. Conventional approaches to obtain diffuse reflection structure rely heavily on exciting the scattering of randomly textured surface, whereas here, we reveal numerically and experimentally that, besides interface scattering, bulk scattering of ordered-disordered hybrid structure can be also employed to obtain highly efficient diffuse reflector. The diffuse reflectance over the measured wavelength region increases significantly with thickness, while angle and polarization-dependent specular reflections are suppressed. These results show the potential to be used as a highly efficient diffuse reflector or for applications in various advanced fields of photonics related to light extractions and diffusers