Optical properties and plasmonic performance of titanium nitride

Materials

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 3128-3154

  Patsalas, Panos ^a   Kalfagiannis, Nikolaos ^b   Kassavetis, Spyros ^a,c  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Ellipsometry; Optical properties; Plasmonics; Polaritonics; Titanium nitride

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; ELLIPSOMETRY; METALS; MOS DEVICES; NITRIDES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PLASMONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTOR GROWTH; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TIN OXIDES; TITANIUM; TITANIUM COMPOUNDS;

COMPLEMENTARY METAL-OXIDE-SEMICONDUCTOR TECHNOLOGIES; DIELECTRIC FUNCTION SPECTRA; ELECTRON CONDUCTIVITY; ENGINEERING MATERIALS; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; PLASMONICS; POLARITONICS; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS;

TITANIUM NITRIDE;

EID: 84936803232     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ma8063128     Document Type: Article

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