Fabrication and optical characterizations of smooth silver-silica nanocomposite films

Laser Physics Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 677-684

  Chen, W ^a   Thoreson, M D ^b   Kildishev, A V ^a   Shalaev, V M ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Composite film; Effective medium theory; Superlens

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955990011     PISSN: 16122011     EISSN: 1612202X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lapl.201010041     Document Type: Article

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