Nonresonant enhancement of spontaneous emission in metal-dielectric-metal plasmon waveguide structures

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 15, 2008, Pages

  Jun, Y C ^a   Kekatpure, R D ^a   White, J S ^a   Brongersma, M L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 55349096166     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.78.153111     Document Type: Article

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