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Pseudo-isotropic and maximum-bandwidth points for axially excited chiral sculptured thin films

✍ Scribed by Akhlesh Lakhtakia

Book ID: 102517174
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2002
Tongue: English
Weight: 253 KB
Volume: 34
Category: Article
ISSN: 0895-2477
DOI: 10.1002/mop.10464

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Abstract

Chiral sculptured thin films (STFs) are periodically anisotropic, and exhibit the circular Bragg phenomenon over a certain wavelength regime on axial excitation. Among the key deposition parameters for the growth of a chiral STF is the so‐called vapor incidence angle χ~v~. Analysis based on data on the related columnar thin films (CTFs) shows that pseudo‐isotropic values of χ~v~ can exist. Similarly, a maximum‐bandwidth value of χ~v~ is also shown to be possible. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 34: 367–371, 2002; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.10464

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