Demonstration of Al:ZnO as a plasmonic component for near-infrared metamaterials

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 8834-8838

  Naik, Gururaj V ^a   Liu, Jingjing ^a   Kildishev, Alexander V ^a   Shalaev, Vladimir M ^a,b   Boltasseva, Alexandra ^a,c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MISIS   (Russian Federation)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Heavily doped semiconductors; Low loss metals; Transparent conducting oxides

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; ZINC OXIDE;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELLIPSOMETRY; MAGNETIC FIELD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICONDUCTOR;

ALUMINUM; NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTICAL PROCESSES; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; SEMICONDUCTORS; ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 84861906090     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1121517109     Document Type: Article

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