Unidirectional spaser in symmetry-broken plasmonic core-shell nanocavity

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Meng, Xiangeng ^a,b   Guler, Urcan ^a   Kildishev, Alexander V ^a   Fujita, Koji ^b   Tanaka, Katsuhisa ^b   Shalaev, Vladimir M ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 84873677697     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01241     Document Type: Article

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