Submicrometer-wide amorphous and polycrystalline anatase TiO2 waveguides for microphotonic devices

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 23821-23831

  Bradley, Jonathan D B ^a   Evans, Christopher C ^a   Choy, Jennifer T ^a   Reshef, Orad ^a   Deotare, Parag B ^a   Parsy, François ^a   Phillips, Katherine C ^a   Loncar, Marko ^a   Mazur, Eric ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; ELECTRIC LOSSES; ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; THIN FILMS; WAVEGUIDES;

1550 NM; AMORPHOUS TIO; ANATASE TIO; COUPLING LENGTH; MICROPHOTONIC DEVICES; OPTICAL COUPLER; POLYCRYSTALLINE; PROPAGATION LOSS; SINGLE MODE;

TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

NANOPARTICLE; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTON; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MINIATURIZATION; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTONS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TITANIUM;

EID: 84867303318     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.023821     Document Type: Article

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