Thin-Film Metamaterials Called Sculptured Thin Films

Engineering Materials

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 59-71

  Lakhtakia, Akhlesh ^a   Geddes, Joseph B ^b  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bulk Film; Deposit Titanium Dioxide; Local Homogenization; Physical Vapor Deposition; Subwavelength Scale

Indexed keywords

METAMATERIALS; MORPHOLOGY; NANOWIRES; PHYSICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; SUBSTRATES; THIN FILMS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

BULK FILM; DEPOSIT TITANIA DIOXIDE; LOCAL HOMOGENIZATION; PERFORMANCE; PHYSICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION; PROTOTYPE DEVICES; ROTATING SUBSTRATES; SCULPTURED THIN FILMS; SUBWAVELENGTH SCALE; THIN-FILMS;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 85098585550     PISSN: 16121317     EISSN: 18681212     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-12070-1_3     Document Type: Chapter

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