Dipole Decay Rates Engineering via Silver Nanocones

Plasmonics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 1079-1086

  D'Agostino, Stefania ^a   Della Sala, Fabio ^b,c   Andreani, Lucio Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL NANOTECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (Italy)

^c ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Decay rates; Dipole; Plasmonics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877591651     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-013-9512-3     Document Type: Article

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