Pith Number

pith:TEWE3ICM

pith:2016:TEWE3ICMVE4LDB7CNP3CBZ6GKG

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Total absorption of visible light in ultra-thin weakly-absorbing semiconductor gratings

Bj\"orn C. P. Sturmberg, Christopher G. Poulton, C. Martijn de Sterke, Duk-Yong Choi, Kokou B. Dossou, Kylie R. Catchpole, Lindsay C. Botten, Ross C. McPhedran, Teck K. Chong, Thomas P. White

arxiv:1602.04903 v1 · 2016-02-16 · physics.optics

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\pithnumber{TEWE3ICMVE4LDB7CNP3CBZ6GKG}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:20:37.900183Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

992c4da04ca938b187e26bf620e7c651a6e82ccea276b3311066088a4561a62c

Aliases

arxiv: 1602.04903 · arxiv_version: 1602.04903v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1602.04903 · pith_short_12: TEWE3ICMVE4L · pith_short_16: TEWE3ICMVE4LDB7C · pith_short_8: TEWE3ICM

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/TEWE3ICMVE4LDB7CNP3CBZ6GKG \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 992c4da04ca938b187e26bf620e7c651a6e82ccea276b3311066088a4561a62c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e8319a1c3afbb4c2a0dac6f0252e0f590f3edef00abaece19894cfc7618fc353",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.optics",
    "submitted_at": "2016-02-16T04:08:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "51da4d4616ac5e0e63e588cabac79fef0ee4e8a099b7b320e6cda035d78c03c4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1602.04903",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}