Bulk optical metamaterials assembled by microfluidic evaporation

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1792-1797

  Baron, Alexandre ^a,b   Iazzolino, Antonio ^b   Ehrhardt, Kévin ^a,b   Salmon, Jean Baptiste ^b   Aradian, Ashod ^a,b   Kravets, Vasyl ^c   Grigorenko, Alexander N ^c   Leng, Jacques ^b   Beulze, Aurélie Le ^a   Tréguer Delapierre, Mona ^a   Correa Duarte, Miguel A ^d   Barois, Philippe ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULK SAMPLES; HIGH REFRACTIVE INDEX; LARGE DIMENSIONS; NUMBER OF LAYERS; OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION; OPTICAL METAMATERIALS;

EVAPORATION; MICROFLUIDICS; NANOPARTICLES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SPECTROSCOPIC ELLIPSOMETRY;

OPTICAL MATERIALS;

EID: 84888071566     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.3.001792     Document Type: Article

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