Local-field effects in nanostructured photonic materials

Advances in Optics and Photonics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-77

  Dolgaleva, Ksenia ^a   Boyd, Robert W ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

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EID: 84866390638     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19438206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AOP.4.000001     Document Type: Review

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