Guiding light with long-range plasmons

Optics and Photonics News

Volumn 19, Issue 7-8, 2008, Pages 28-34

  Degiron, Aloyse ^c   Berini, Pierre ^c   Smith, David R ^a,b  

^a Center for Metamaterials and Integrated Plasmonics

^b Duke University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

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EID: 54749083270     PISSN: 10476938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPN.19.7.000028     Document Type: Article

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