Ultra-thin gold films on transparent polymers

Nanophotonics

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 3-11

  Leosson, Kristjan ^a   Ingason, Arni S ^b   Agnarsson, Bjorn ^c   Kossoy, Anna ^a   Olafsson, Sveinn ^a   Gather, Malte C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^d DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Optical polymers; Surface plasmons; Thin metal films; Transparent electrodes; X ray analysis

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; FILMS; GOLD; METALLIC FILMS; PLASMONS; POLYMER FILMS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

DEPOSITION TECHNIQUE; OPTICAL POLYMERS; PLASMONIC NANOSTRUCTURES; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION; SURFACE PLASMONS; THIN FILM WAVEGUIDES; THIN METAL FILMS; TRANSPARENT ELECTRODE;

POLYMERS;

EID: 84877719630     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21928614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2012-0030     Document Type: Article

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