Nanostructures for surface plasmons

Advances in Optics and Photonics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 157-321

  Zhang, Junxi ^a   Zhang, Lide ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS   (China)

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EID: 84868341701     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19438206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AOP.4.000157     Document Type: Article

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