Subwavelength leaky-wave optical nanoantennas: Directive radiation from linear arrays of plasmonic nanoparticles

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 14, 2010, Pages

  Liu, Xing Xiang ^a   Alù, Andrea ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

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EID: 78049476205     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.82.144305     Document Type: Article

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