A bimetallic nanoantenna for directional colour routing

Nature Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Shegai, Timur ^a   Chen, Si ^a   Miljković, Vladimir D ^a   Zengin, Gälis ^a   Johansson, Peter ^a,b   Käll, Mikael ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMER; GOLD; METAL NANOPARTICLE; NANOMATERIAL; SILVER;

ARTICLE; BLUE LIGHT; COLOR; GEOMETRY; NANOANTENNA; NANODEVICE; NANOPHOTONICS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; POLARIZATION; RED LIGHT;

EID: 80053433368     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1490     Document Type: Article

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