Optical field enhancement with plasmon resonant Bowtie nanoantennas

Springer Series in Optical Sciences

Volumn 131, Issue , 2007, Pages 125-137

  Kino, G S ^a   Sundaramurthy, Arvind ^a   Schuck, P J ^a   Fromm, D P ^a   Moerner, W E ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 34548863113     PISSN: 03424111     EISSN: 15561534     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-4333-8_9     Document Type: Article

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