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Metal or Metal-Containing Films: From Preparation to Optical Applications
This special issue belongs to the section “Surface Characterization, Deposition and Modification“.
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The Special Issue of Coatings on “Metal or Metal-Containing Films: From Preparation to Optical Applications” welcomes research papers devoted to the preparation and/or properties of all kinds of metal or metal containing thin films with an optical application background in spectral regions ranging from the microwave spectral range up to the vacuum ultraviolet. There is no restriction on deposition techniques applied. In addition to conventional metal film applications in optics, we particularly encourage authors to contribute papers from the following fields:
- Metal films for surface-sensitive spectroscopy versions;
- Local field enhancement by metal films;
- Nonlinear optical effects;
- Structured and unstructured metal films in plasmonics;
- Metal island films;
- Transparent conductive oxides.
Dr. Steffen Wilbrandt
Dr. Olaf Stenzel
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- metal films
- metal island films
- optical properties
- local fields
- non-linear optics
- plasmonics
- absorber coatings
- transparent conducting oxides
- structured coatings
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