Optical properties of a fabricated self-assembled bottom-up bulk metamaterial

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 9607-9616

  Muhlig S ^a   Rockstuhl, C ^a   Yannopapas, V ^b   Burgi T ^c   Shalkevich, N ^d   Lederer, F ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^d Universite de Neuchatel Institut de Physique   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; FABRICATION; GOLD COMPOUNDS; METAMATERIALS;

BOTTOM UP APPROACH; EFFECTIVE MEDIUM THEORIES; EFFECTIVE PERMEABILITY; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; MAGNETIC DIPOLE; MIE THEORY; SELF-ASSEMBLED; SPECTRAL RESPONSE; SPHERICAL CLUSTERS;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 79955807051     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.009607     Document Type: Article

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