Side diffusion modeling by the explicit consideration of a space-charge buildup under the mask during strip waveguide formation in the Ag +-Na+ field-assisted ion-exchange process

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 619-625

  Mrozek, Piotr ^a   Mrozek, Ewa ^a   Lukaszewicz, Tadeusz ^a  

^a BIALYSTOK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ION EXCHANGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POISSON EQUATION; SILVER COMPOUNDS; WAVEGUIDES;

BLOCKING MASK; DIFFUSION MODELING; NUMERICAL MODELS; SPACE CHARGE BUILDUP;

DIFFUSION;

EID: 33645030173     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.000619     Document Type: Article

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