Optical response of metal-insulator-metal heterostructures and their application for the detection of chemicurrents

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Thissen, Peter ^a,b   Schindler, Beate ^a   Diesing, Detlef ^a   Hasselbrink, Eckart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC HYDROGEN; BARRIER HEIGHTS; CURRENT FLOWS; HETEROSTRUCTURES; HYDROGEN ATOMS; LOW ENERGY ELECTRONS; MACROSCOPIC CURRENTS; METAL INSULATOR METALS; NEAR INFRARED LIGHT; OPTICAL RESPONSE; OXIDE LAYER; PHOTON ENERGY; PHOTOYIELDS; THIN FILM METAL;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; GOLD; HYDROGEN; INFRARED DEVICES; LIGHT; METAL INSULATOR BOUNDARIES; METALS; OPTICAL RECORDING; PHOTONS; SEMICONDUCTOR INSULATOR BOUNDARIES; TANTALUM; TANTALUM OXIDES;

MIM DEVICES;

EID: 78650087345     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/12/11/113014     Document Type: Review

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