Optical properties of Ag-TiO2 nanocermet films prepared by cosputtering and multilayer deposition techniques

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 16, 2000, Pages 2745-2753

  Dakka, Anass ^a,b   Lafait, Jacques ^b   Sella, Claude ^b   Berthier, Serge ^b   Abd Lefdil, Mohammed ^a   Martin, Jean Claude ^b   Maaza, Malik ^c  

^a FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES   (Morocco)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT ABSORPTION; MULTILAYERS; OPTICAL FILTERS; SILVER COMPOUNDS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

NANOCERMET FILMS;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 0000394646     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.002745     Document Type: Article

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