Nanoscale interference patterns of gap-mode multipolar plasmonic fields

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Tanaka, Yoshito ^a   Sanada, Akio ^a   Sasaki, Keiji ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 84868292781     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00764     Document Type: Article

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