Photonic metamaterials by direct laser writing and silver chemical vapour deposition

Nature Materials

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 543-546

  Rill, Michael S ^a   Plet, Christine ^a   Thiel, Michael ^a   Staude, Isabelle ^a   Von Freymann, Georg ^a,b   Linden, Stefan ^a,b   Wegener, Martin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; DEPOSITION; ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; ELECTRON BEAMS; EVAPORATION; FABRICATION; PHOTONICS; SILVER; VAPOR DEPOSITION;

ARTIFICIAL MATERIAL; CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION; DIRECT LASER WRITING; OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION; OPTICAL FREQUENCY; PHOTONIC METAMATERIALS; SPLIT RING RESONATOR; TWO DIMENSIONAL (2 D);

METAMATERIALS;

ANISOTROPY; BISMUTH; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DEPOSITION; ELECTRONS; EVAPORATION; LASERS; LITHOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; MOISTURE CONTENT; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PARAMETERS; PRECIOUS METALS; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; SILVER; VAPORS;

EID: 45849111830     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2197     Document Type: Article

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