Epitaxial superlattices with titanium nitride as a plasmonic component for optical hyperbolic metamaterials

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 21, 2014, Pages 7546-7551

  Naik, Gururaj V ^a   Saha, Bivas ^a   Liu, Jing ^a   Saber, Sammy M ^a   Stach, Eric A ^a   Irudayaraj, Joseph M K ^a   Sands, Timothy D ^a   Shalaev, Vladimir M ^a   Boltasseva, Alexandra ^a,b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Ceramics; Metal nitrides; Refractory plasmonics

Indexed keywords

GOLD; MAGNESIUM OXIDE; SILVER; TITANIUM DERIVATIVE; TITANIUM NITRIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CERAMICS; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM YIELD; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THERMOSTABILITY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CERAMICS; METAL NITRIDES; REFRACTORY PLASMONICS;

ENGINEERING; GOLD; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTICAL PHENOMENA; SILVER; TITANIUM; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84901660451     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1319446111     Document Type: Article

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