Probing the out-of-plane optical response of plasmonic nanostructures using spectroscopic ellipsometry

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 84, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Verre, R ^a   Fleischer, K ^a   Smith, C ^a   McAlinden, N ^a   McGilp, J F ^a   Shvets, I V ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

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EID: 80052440430     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.84.085440     Document Type: Article

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