Experimental demonstration of low-loss optical waveguiding at deep sub-wavelength scales

Nature Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Sorger, Volker J ^a   Ye, Ziliang ^a   Oulton, Rupert F ^a   Wang, Yuan ^a   Bartal, Guy ^a   Yin, Xiaobo ^a   Zhang, Xiang ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYBRIDIZATION; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PARTICLE SIZE; SCANNING NEAR FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; VACUUM;

EID: 79958760876     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1315     Document Type: Article

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