Plasmon lasers at deep subwavelength scale

Nature

Volumn 461, Issue 7264, 2009, Pages 629-632

  Oulton, Rupert F ^a   Sorger, Volker J ^a   Zentgraf, Thomas ^a   Ma, Ren Min ^c   Gladden, Christopher ^a   Dai, Lun ^c   Bartal, Guy ^a   Zhang, Xiang ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM SULFIDE; NANOWIRE; SILVER;

DIFFRACTION; DOWNSCALING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; LASER; MICROSCOPY; QUANTUM MECHANICS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ARTICLE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENETIC PROCEDURES; LASER; NANOANALYSIS; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SEMICONDUCTOR;

EID: 70349656100     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08364     Document Type: Article

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