Radiation guiding with surface plasmon polaritons

Reports on Progress in Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Han, Zhanghua ^a   Bozhevolnyi, Sergey I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REVIEW; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84871281444     PISSN: 00344885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0034-4885/76/1/016402     Document Type: Article

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