Spiral-staircase photonic structures of metallic nanorods

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 84, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Christofi, A ^a,b   Stefanou, N ^a   Gantzounis, G ^c   Papanikolaou, N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Greece)

^c INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Greece)

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EID: 80053902632     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.84.125109     Document Type: Article

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