Study of tarnished films formed on silver by exposure to H2S with the surface-plasmon resonance technique

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 28, 2000, Pages 5214-5220

  Mehan, Navina ^a   Mansingh, Abhai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAMPING; FILM GROWTH; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; METALLIC FILMS; REFLECTION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ATTENUATED TOTAL REFLECTION (ATR);

SILVER COMPOUNDS;

EID: 0000618356     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.005214     Document Type: Article

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