A bottom-up approach to fabricate optical metamaterials by self-assembled metallic nanoparticles

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 269-278

  Dintinger, José ^a   Mühlig, Stefan ^b   Rockstuhl, Carsten ^b   Scharf, Toralf ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM UP APPROACH; BUILDING BLOCKES; CLUSTER SIZES; HIGH PERMITTIVITY; MAGNETIC DIPOLE; MAGNETIC RESPONSE; MATERIAL DISPERSIONS; METALLIC NANOPARTICLES; NANOPARTICLE DENSITY; OIL-IN-WATER EMULSIONS; SELF-ASSEMBLED; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; SPECTRAL RESPONSE; SPHERICAL CLUSTERS; TWO-STEP PROCESS; VISIBLE RANGE;

EMULSIONS; METAMATERIALS; NANOPARTICLES; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SPECTROSCOPIC ELLIPSOMETRY;

SILVER;

EID: 84862155375     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.2.000269     Document Type: Article

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