Frequency tunable near-infrared metamaterials based on V02 phase transition

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 18330-18339

  Dicken, Matthew J ^a   Aydin, Koray ^a   Pryce, Imogen M ^a   Sweatlock, Luke A ^b   Boyd, Elizabeth M ^a   Walavalkar, Sameer ^a   Ma, James ^b   Atwater, Harry A ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; INFRARED DEVICES; METAL INSULATOR BOUNDARIES; METAMATERIALS; REACTIVE ION ETCHING; RING GAGES;

BI-LAYER STRUCTURE; COUPLING ELEMENT; E-BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; METAL-INSULATOR PHASE TRANSITION; NEAR-INFRARED WAVELENGTH; SPLIT RING RESONATOR; TUNABLE METAMATERIALS; TUNABLE RESONANCES;

METAL INSULATOR TRANSITION;

OXIDE; VANADIUM;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; LIGHT; MATERIALS; METHODOLOGY; PHASE TRANSITION; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY;

LIGHT; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; OXIDES; PHASE TRANSITION; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; VANADIUM;

EID: 70349679290     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.018330     Document Type: Article

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