Independence of plasmonic near-field enhancements to illumination beam profile

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 86, Issue 15, 2012, Pages

  Foreman, Matthew R ^a   Sivan, Yonatan ^b   Maier, Stefan A ^b   Török, Peter ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84867785400     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.86.155441     Document Type: Article

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