Three-dimensional nanometer-scale optical cavities of indefinite medium

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 28, 2011, Pages 11327-11331

  Yao, Jie ^a   Yang, Xiaodong ^a,b   Yin, Xiaobo ^a,b   Bartal, Guy ^a   Zhang, Xiang ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Metamaterials; Nanophotonics; Nanowires; Plasmonics

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; OPTICAL CAVITY; OPTICS; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VACUUM;

EID: 79960990880     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1104418108     Document Type: Article

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