Shaping light beams in the nanometer scale: A Yagi-Uda nanoantenna in the optical domain

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 24, 2007, Pages

  Li, Jingjing ^a   Salandrino, Alessandro ^a   Engheta, Nader ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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EID: 36849027605     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.76.245403     Document Type: Article

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