Towards piezoelectrically tunable chiral sculptured thin film lasers

Sensors and Actuators, A: Physical

Volumn 102, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 31-35

  Wang, Fei ^a   Lakhtakia, Akhlesh ^a   Messier, Russell ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Piezoelectricity; Sculptured thin film; Tunable laser

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; LASERS; LIGHT EMISSION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PLASTIC FILMS; THIN FILMS;

SCULPTURED THIN FILMS (STF);

PIEZOELECTRICITY;

EID: 0036894565     PISSN: 09244247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0924-4247(02)00271-6     Document Type: Article

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