Thin film Ag superlens towards lab-on-a-chip integration

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 25, 2009, Pages 22543-22552

  Jeppesen, C ^a   Nielsen, R B ^a   Boltasseva, A ^a   Xiao, S ^a   Mortensen, N A ^a   Kristensen, A ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAB-ON-A-CHIP; SILVER;

CHIP INTEGRATION; CYCLOOLEFIN COPOLYMERS; DIELECTRIC MATRIXES; FABRICATION AND CHARACTERIZATIONS; FREE-SPACE WAVELENGTHS; HALF-PITCH GRATINGS; SUPERLENS DESIGN; THIN METAL FILMS;

THIN FILMS;

SILVER;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LENSES; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; REFRACTOMETRY; SILVER; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION;

EID: 72049131338     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.022543     Document Type: Article

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