Plasmonic nanofocusing with a metallic pyramid and an integrated C-shaped aperture

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Lindquist, Nathan C ^a,b   Johnson, Timothy W ^a   Nagpal, Prashant ^c   Norris, David J ^d   Oh, Sang Hyun ^a,e  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b BETHEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e Seoul National University   (South Korea)

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EID: 84878659582     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01857     Document Type: Article

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