Modeling plasmonic scattering combined with thin-film optics

Nanotechnology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Schmid, M ^a,b   Klenk, R ^b   Lux Steiner, M Ch ^b   Topic M ^a   Krc J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL NANOPARTICLES; METAL NANOSTRUCTURE; MIE THEORY; MODELING CONCEPTS; OPTICAL MODELS; PLASMONIC; SCATTERING MODEL; SCATTERING PROPERTY; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; THIN FILM OPTICS; THIN-FILM SOLAR CELLS; THIN-FILM STRUCTURE; ZNO;

COHERENT SCATTERING; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; METALS; NANOPARTICLES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PLASMONS; SILVER; SOLAR CELLS; ZINC OXIDE;

OPTICAL FILMS;

EID: 79251575884     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/22/2/025204     Document Type: Article

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