Vacuum deposition of chiral sculptured thin films with high optical activity

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 642-649

  Hodgkinson, Ian ^a   Wu, Qi Hong ^a   Knight, Ben ^a   Lakhtakia, Akhlesh ^b   Robbie, Kevin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^c LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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EID: 0000929826     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.000642     Document Type: Article

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