Surface plasmon polaritons in metal stripes and wires

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 362, Issue 1817, 2004, Pages 739-756

  Krenn, J R ^a   Weeber, J C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Metal waveguides; Nano optics; Scanning near field microscopy; Surface plasmon polaritons

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842432496     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2003.1344     Document Type: Review

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