Plasmon polaritons in the near infrared on fluorine doped tin oxide films

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 10155-10167

  Dominici, Lorenzo ^a,b   Michelotti, Francesco ^a   Brown, Thomas M ^b   Reale, Andrea ^b   Di Carlo, Aldo ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTIVE FILMS; CURVE FITTING; DISPERSION (WAVES); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; FILM THICKNESS; FLUORINE; INFRARED DEVICES; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); NANOCOMPOSITES; PHONONS; PHOTONS; PLASMONS; QUANTUM THEORY; REFLECTION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TIN; TIN OXIDES;

ATTENUATED TOTAL REFLECTIONS; FLUORINE DOPED TIN OXIDE; FLUORINE-DOPED TIN OXIDE FILMS; SPECTROPHOTOMETER MEASUREMENTS; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; THICKNESS-DEPENDENT TRANSITION; TRANSMITTANCE MEASUREMENTS; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTING OXIDE FILMS;

OXIDE FILMS;

FLUORINE; TIN DERIVATIVE; TIN DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFRARED RADIATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUORINE; INFRARED RAYS; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TIN COMPOUNDS;

EID: 66849115464     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.010155     Document Type: Article

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