Large-area maskless surface plasmon interference for one- and two-dimensional periodic nanoscale feature patterning

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 95-99

  Sreekanth, K V ^a   Murukeshan, V M ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PLANTS (BOTANY); PLASMONS;

FEATURE SIZES; LAYER CONFIGURATION; MASK LESS; NANO SCALE; NANOSCALE FEATURES; PHOTORESIST LAYERS; SINGLE EXPOSURE; SURFACE PLASMONS; SURFACE-PLASMON;

TWO DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 75149193844     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.27.000095     Document Type: Article

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