Determination of the optical constants of an arbitrarily oriented anisotropic thin film by exciting surface plasmons analyzed by the nonsymmetric theory

Optical Engineering

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 925-928

  Jen, Yi Jun ^a   Lee, Cheng Chung ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Attenuated total reflection; Surface plasmons

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BIREFRINGENCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; THIN FILMS;

ATTENUATED-TOTAL-REFLECTION (ATR);

OPTICAL FILMS;

EID: 0038679532     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1557172     Document Type: Article

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