Plasmonics for near-field nano-imaging and superlensing

Nature Photonics

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 388-394

  Kawata, Satoshi ^a,b   Inouye, Yasushi ^a   Verma, Prabhat ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT RESEARCH STATUS; DIFFRACTION LIMITS; DIFFRACTION OF LIGHTS; LOCALIZED SURFACE PLASMON; OPTICAL MICROSCOPES; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SURFACE PLASMONS; THIN METAL FILMS;

DIFFRACTION; LIGHT;

PLASMONS;

EID: 68049144820     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2009.111     Document Type: Review

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