THz conductivities of indium-tin-oxide nanowhiskers as a graded-refractive-index structure

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 104, 2012, Pages A441-A451

  Yang, Chan Shan ^a   Chang, Chia Hua ^b   Wada, Osamu ^a,c   Yu, Peichen ^b   Pan, Ci Ling ^a,d  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; INDIUM; REFRACTIVE INDEX; THIN FILMS; TIN; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ABSORPTION COEFFICIENTS; ANTI-REFLECTION; BOTTOM LAYERS; CARRIER LOCALIZATION; CARRIER SCATTERING; COMPLEX CONDUCTIVITY; CRYSTALLINE PROPERTIES; CRYSTALLINITIES; ELECTRON BEAM EVAPORATION; FREQUENCY-DEPENDENT; INDIUM TIN OXIDE; ITO THIN FILMS; LARGE-GRAIN; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TERAHERTZ TIME DOMAIN SPECTROSCOPY; THIN FILM MODEL; X RAY DATA;

NANOWHISKERS;

EID: 84863730775     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.00A441     Document Type: Article

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