Tunable transmission at 100 THz through a metallic hole array with a varying hole channel shape

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 14629-14635

  Battula, Arvind ^a   Lu, Yalin ^b   Knize, R J ^b   Reinhardt, Kitt ^c   Chen, Shaochen ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE OFFICE OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; FILM THICKNESS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NANOLITHOGRAPHY;

TRANSMISSION CHARACTERISTICS; TRANSMISSION PEAKS;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

EID: 35948943947     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.014629     Document Type: Article

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