Plasmon-enhanced luminescence near noble-metal nanospheres: Comparison of exact theory and an improved Gersten and Nitzan model

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 11, 2007, Pages

  Mertens, H ^a   Koenderink, A F ^a   Polman, A ^a  

^a FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

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EID: 34648823390     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.76.115123     Document Type: Article

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