Performance of thermo-optic components based on dielectric-loaded surface plasmon polariton waveguides

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Gosciniak, Jacek ^a,b   Bozhevolnyi, Sergey I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b SINGAPORE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN   (Singapore)

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EID: 84876473631     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01803     Document Type: Article

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