Plasmonic resonances in nanostructured transparent conducting oxide films

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Kim, Jongbum ^a   Naik, Gururaj V ^a   Emani, Naresh K ^a   Guler, Urcan ^a   Boltasseva, Alexandra ^a  

^a Purdue University   (United States)

Author keywords

Nanopatterning; plasmonics; transparent conductive oxides (TCOs)

Indexed keywords

LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; NANOPATTERNING; OPTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; PLASMONIC NANOSTRUCTURES; PLASMONICS; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTING OXIDE; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTING OXIDE FILMS; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE OXIDE (TCOS);

ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; INFRARED DEVICES; METAMATERIALS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; OXIDE FILMS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84877789640     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2013.2238611     Document Type: Article

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