Ultra-thin ultra-smooth and low-loss silver films on a germanium wetting layer

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 5124-5134

  Chen, Weiqiang ^a   Thoreson, Mark D ^a   Ishii, Satoshi ^a   Kildishev, Alexander V ^a   Shalaev, Vladimir M ^a  

^a Purdue University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; COMPOSITE FILMS; GERMANIUM; SILICA; SOLVENTS; SUBSTRATES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WETTING;

AG FILMS; ELECTRON BEAM EVAPORATION; GLASS SUBSTRATES; IDEAL VALUES; LOW LOSS; MINIMAL THICKNESS; PERCOLATION THRESHOLDS; POST ANNEALING TREATMENT; QUANTUM SIZE EFFECTS; SILVER FILM; SUB-LAYERS; ULTRA-THIN; WETTING LAYER;

SILVER;

EID: 77749316232     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.005124     Document Type: Article

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