Re-evaluation of literature values of silver optical constants

Optics Express

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 2133-2144

  Jiang, Yajie ^a   Pillai, Supriya ^a   Green, Martin A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILVER;

DATA SET; OPTICAL APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL DATA; RE-EVALUATION; REALISTIC MODELLING; REALISTIC SIMULATION; TOPICAL APPLICATION;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 84922790730     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.002133     Document Type: Article

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