Broadband terahertz conductivity and optical transmission of indium-tin-oxide (ITO) nanomaterials

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 16670-16682

  Yang, Chan Shan ^a   Chang, Chan Ming ^a   Chen, Po Han ^b   Yu, Peichen ^b   Pan, Ci Ling ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c Frontier Research Center on Fundamental and Applied Sciences of Matters   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER MOBILITY; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRODES; ELECTRON SCATTERING; INDIUM; NANORODS; SPECTROMETERS; THIN FILMS; TIN; TIN OXIDES;

CARRIER LOCALIZATION EFFECTS; COMPLEX CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICAL CHARACTERISTIC; ELECTRICAL PARAMETER; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRA REDS; OPTICAL AND ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES; TIME-DOMAIN SPECTROMETER; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTING ELECTRODES;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

INDIUM TIN OXIDE; NANOPARTICLE; TIN DERIVATIVE;

CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; PROCEDURES; RADIATION RESPONSE; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; ARTICLE; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOPARTICLES; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; TIN COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84880526619     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.016670     Document Type: Article

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