Novel Plasmonic Material (IMAGE)

Optica

Novel Plasmonic Material

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This image shows a) Excitation by light of a surface plasmon-polariton on a thin film of titanium nitride. b) Atomic force microscope image of the surface of titanium nitride film. The mean roughness of the film is 0.5 nm. c) Scanning electron microscopy image of TiN thin film on sapphire. The texture shows multivariant epitaxial (crystalline) growth.

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Alexandra Boltasseva, Purdue University/Optical Materials Express.

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