Fabrication of a dual-layer aluminum nanowires polarization filter array

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 24361-24369

  Gruev, Viktor ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; NANOWIRES;

DUAL LAYER; FILTER ARRAYS; INTERFERENCE LITHOGRAPHY; LINEAR POLARIZATION; MAXIMUM EXTINCTION RATIOS; PIXEL PITCH; POLARIZATION FILTERS;

POLARIZATION;

ALUMINUM; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FILTRATION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTOGRAPHY; REFRACTOMETRY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALUMINUM; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FILTRATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTOGRAPHY; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 82055170365     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.024361     Document Type: Article

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