Optical properties of nitrogen-substituted strontium titanate thin films prepared by pulsed laser deposition

Materials

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1388-1401

  Marozau, Ivan ^a   shkabko, Andrey ^b   Döbeli, Max ^a   Lippert, Thomas ^a   logvinovich, Dimitri ^b   Mallepell, Marc ^a   Schneider, Christof W ^a   weidenkaff, Anke ^b   Wokaun, Alexander ^a  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Optical properties; Oxynitrides; Pulsed laser deposition; Strontium titanate; Thin films

Indexed keywords

NH3 GAS; NITROGEN CONTENT; ORBITALS; OXYNITRIDES; PEROVSKITE TYPE; REACTIVE GAS; SRTIO; SUBSTRATE TEMPERATURE;

FILM PREPARATION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; STRONTIUM TITANATES; SUBSTRATES; THIN FILMS;

NITROGEN;

EID: 80053981023     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ma2031388     Document Type: Article

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