Modeling of optical properties of silver-doped nanocomposite glasses modified by electric-field-assisted dissolution of nanoparticles

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 35, 2006, Pages 8874-8881

  Sancho Parramon, Jordi ^a   Abdolvand, Amin ^a   Podlipensky, Alexander ^a,b   Seifert, Gerhard ^a,b   Graener, Heinrich ^a,b   Syrowatka, Frank ^a,c  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b Department of Physics ^*

^c IWZ Materialwissenschaft   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; DISSOLUTION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; GLASS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SPECTROPHOTOMETERS;

ELECTRIC-FIELD-ASSISTED DISSOLUTION; METALLODIELECTRIC MATERIALS; SILVER NANOPARTICLES;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 33846251328     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.008874     Document Type: Article

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