Unusual optical properties of the Au/Ag alloy at the matching mole fraction

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1226-1235

  Nishijima, Yoshiaki ^a   Akiyama, Shunsuke ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD ENHANCEMENT; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN SIMULATIONS; K-VALUES; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; MOLAR FRACTIONS; MOLE FRACTION; NEAR-INFRARED WAVELENGTH;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 84870374822     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.2.001226     Document Type: Article

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