High Transparency of Classically Opaque Metallic Films
- 2 September 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 55 (10) , 1117-1120
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.55.1117
Abstract
It is demonstrated, both theoretically and experimentally, that a classically opaque metallic film can appear highly transparent when the conditions are established for the incident electromagnetic wave to excite coupled surface modes on both sides of the film.Keywords
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