Optical percolation and nonlinearity of sputtered Ag island films

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1541-1546

  Ding, S ^a   Wang, X ^a   Chen, D J ^a   Wang, Q Q ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT ABSORPTION; MICROSTRUCTURE; NONLINEAR OPTICS; SILVER; SPUTTERING;

NONLINEARITY; OPTICAL PERCOLATION; PERCOLATION THRESHOLD;

OPTICAL FILMS;

EID: 33144476506     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.001541     Document Type: Article

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