Visible frequency magnetic activity in silver nanocluster metamaterial

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Tamma, Venkata Ananth ^a   Lee, Jin Hyoung ^a   Wu, Qi ^a   Park, Wounjhang ^a  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETISM; METAMATERIALS; NANOCLUSTERS; RESONANCE; SELF ASSEMBLY;

EFFECTIVE PERMEABILITY; LASER INTERFERENCE LITHOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC ACTIVITY; MANUFACTURING PROCESS; SILVER NANOCLUSTERS; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; VISIBLE FREQUENCIES; VISIBLE FREQUENCY REGION;

SILVER;

EID: 77749252306     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.000A11     Document Type: Article

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