Light emission from a point-dipole source embedded in a metal-capped chiral sculptured thin film

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6988, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Mackay, Tom G ^a   Lakhtakia, Akhlesh ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Chiral sculptured thin film; Circular bragg phenomenon; Dipole source

Indexed keywords

BIOSENSORS; BRAGG CELLS; CIRCULAR POLARIZATION; COATINGS; LIGHT; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT SOURCES; LIGHTING; PHOTONICS; POLARIZATION; SOLIDS; STEREOCHEMISTRY; SURFACES; THICK FILMS; THIN FILM DEVICES; THIN FILMS; WASTEWATER;

(1 1 0) SURFACE; (1 1 1) ORIENTATION; (E ,2E) THEORY; CIRCULAR BRAGG PHENOMENON (CBP); CIRCULARLY POLARIZED LIGHT (CPL); ELECTRO MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; EMISSION CHARACTERISTICS; EMISSION PATTERNS; EMITTED LIGHT; GREEN FUNCTIONS; LIGHT EMITTERS; MULTI SCALING; NANO-PHOTONICS; NON-HOMOGENEOUS; OPTICAL BIO-SENSORS; OPTICAL SENSING; OPTICAL WAVELENGTHS; ORTHORHOMBIC SYMMETRY; PLANE WAVES; SCULPTURED THIN FILMS; STRUCTURAL HANDEDNESS;

OPTICS;

EID: 45149112405     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.780753     Document Type: Conference Paper

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