3D optical Yagi-Uda nanoantenna array

Nature Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Dregely, Daniel ^a   Taubert, Richard ^a   Dorfmüller, Jens ^a   Vogelgesang, Ralf ^b   Kern, Klaus ^b,c   Giessen, Harald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; IMAGE PROCESSING; NANOARRAY; NANOFABRICATION; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; OPTICS; RADIOFREQUENCY; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; YAGI UDA NANOANTENNA ARRAY;

EID: 79953803693     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1268     Document Type: Article

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