Characterization of zirconia- and niobia-silica mixture coatings produced by ion-beam sputtering

Applied Optics

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Melninkaitis, Andrius ^a   Tolenis, Tomas ^a,c   Mažule, Lina ^a   Mirauskas, Julius ^a   Sirutkaitis, Valdas ^a   Mangote, Benoit ^b   Fu, Xinghai ^b   Zerrad, Myriam ^b   Gallais, Laurent ^b   Commandré, Mireille ^b   Kicas, Simonas ^c   Drazdys, Ramutis ^c  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c CENTER FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COATINGS; LASER DAMAGE; MIXTURES; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; NIOBIUM OXIDE; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILICA; SPUTTERING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; ZIRCONIA; ZIRCONIUM ALLOYS;

CRYSTALLINE-TO-AMORPHOUS; ION-BEAM SPUTTERING; LASER INDUCED DAMAGE THRESHOLDS; OPTICAL SCATTERING; REFRACTIVE INDEX DISPERSION; SILICA COATINGS; SILICA CONTENT; VOLUMETRIC FRACTIONS;

ION BEAMS;

EID: 79952790302     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.00C188     Document Type: Article

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