Rotating-compensator multichannel transmission ellipsometry of a thin-film helicoidal bianisotropic medium

Thin Solid Films

Volumn 313-314, Issue , 1998, Pages 373-378

  Rovira, P I ^a   Yarussi, R A ^a   Collins, R W ^a   Venugopal, V C ^a,b   Lakhtakia, A ^b   Messier, R ^a,b   Robbie, K ^c   Brett, M J ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chiral thin film; Glancing angle deposition; Helicoidal bianisotropic medium; Multichannel Stokes vector spectroscopy; Rotating compensator multichannel ellipsometer

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BIREFRINGENCE; DEPOSITION; ELLIPSOMETRY; GLASS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MAGNESIUM COMPOUNDS; OPTICAL ROTATION; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; SUBSTRATES; THIN FILMS;

CHIRAL THIN FILMS; COTTON EFFECTS; HELICOIDAL BIANISOTROPIC MEDIUM; MULTICHANNEL STOKES VECTOR SPECTROSCOPY; ROTATING COMPENSATOR MULTICHANNEL ELLIPSOMETRY;

OPTICAL FILMS;

EID: 0031998448     PISSN: 00406090     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-6090(97)00849-3     Document Type: Article

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