Ultrafast acousto-magneto-plasmonics

Nature Photonics

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 728-736

  Temnov, Vasily V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU MAINE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH-ENERGY PHOTOELECTRON; HYBRID MULTILAYERS; METAL-DIELECTRIC INTERFACE; NANOFABRICATION TECHNIQUES; OPTICAL MEASUREMENT; POTENTIAL ABILITY; SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS; ULTRAFAST LASER TECHNOLOGY;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; MAGNETOS; NANOPHOTONICS; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ULTRAFAST LASERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; LASER APPLICATIONS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE OPTICS; PHONONS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84868592906     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2012.220     Document Type: Review

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