Highly directional bottom-up 3D nanoantenna for visible light

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Tong, L ^a,c   Pakizeh, T ^b   Feuz, L ^a   Dmitriev, A ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b K N TOOSI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

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EID: 84881177530     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02311     Document Type: Article

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