Optical Antennas

Advances in Optics and Photonics

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 438-483

  Bharadwaj, Palash ^a   Deutsch, Bradley ^a   Novotny, Lukas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

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EID: 72849146758     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19438206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AOP.1.000438     Document Type: Article

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