Nanoamorphous carbon as a blackbody source in plasmonic thermal emitters

Applied Optics

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 218-221

  Demir, Veysi ^a   Araci, Ismail Emre ^a   Kropachev, Alexandr ^b   Skotheim, Terje ^b   Norwood, Robert A ^a   Peyghambarian, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b Intex   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL LATTICES; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; FILMS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MECHANICAL STABILITY; PLASMONS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

BLACKBODY SOURCES; DIELECTRIC LAYER; EMISSION SPECTRUMS; HEXAGONAL LATTICE; LATTICE PERIODICITY; MECHANICAL STRAIN; PLASMONIC THERMAL EMITTERS; WAVELENGTH TUNING;

COMPOSITE FILMS;

EID: 78651361774     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.000218     Document Type: Article

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