Unidirectional ultracompact optical nanoantennas

Nano Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2343-2349

  Pakizeh, Tavakol ^a   Käll, Mikael ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTIPHASE; DIPOLE ANALYSIS; DIPOLE SOURCES; EMISSION WAVELENGTH; NANOANTENNA; NANOANTENNAS; NANODISKS; PLASMONIC NANOPARTICLE; RADIATION PATTERNS;

EID: 66749181751     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl900786u     Document Type: Article

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