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Optical Aspects of Thin Films and Interfaces

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Inorganic Nanoarchitectures by Organic Self-Assembly

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Much of the presented work has been devoted to the design of photonic structures by soft matter selfassembly. This chapter shall give a general introduction to the optics of thin films and interfaces and furthermore explain the main concepts and techniques that were used to analyse the experimental results.

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  1. Fédérale de Lausanne, Department of Materials Science, École Polytechnique, Station 12, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland

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Guldin, S. (2013). Optical Aspects of Thin Films and Interfaces. In: Inorganic Nanoarchitectures by Organic Self-Assembly. Springer Theses. Springer, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00312-2_2

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