Nanoantennas for visible and infrared radiation

Reports on Progress in Physics

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Biagioni, Paolo ^a   Huang, Jer Shing ^b   Hecht, Bert ^c  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

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EID: 84861999225     PISSN: 00344885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0034-4885/75/2/024402     Document Type: Review

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