Sculptured Thin Films: Nanoengineered Morphology and Optics

Sculptured Thin Films: Nanoengineered Morphology and Optics
ISBN-10
0819456063
ISBN-13
9780819456069
Category
Nanotechnology
Pages
332
Language
English
Published
2005
Publisher
SPIE Press
Authors
Akhlesh Lakhtakia, R. Messier

Description

Sculptured thin films (STFs) are a class of nanoengineered materials with properties that can be designed and realized in a controllable manner using physical vapor deposition. This text, presented as a course at the SPIE Optical Science and Technology Symposium, couples detailed knowledge of thin-film morphology with the optical response characteristics of STF devices. An accompanying CD contains Mathematica programs for use with the presented formalisms. Thus, readers will learn to design and engineer STF materials and devices for future applications, particularly with optical applications. Graduate students in optics and practicing optical engineers will find the text valuable, as well as those interested in emerging nanotechnologies for optical devices.

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