Nanoantenna infrared detectors

Cellular Nanoscale Sensory Wave Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 27-86

  Bean, Jeffrey ^a   Tiwari, Badri ^a   Szakmány, Gergo ^a   Bernstein, Gary H ^a   Fay, P ^a   Porod, Wolfgang ^a  

^a University of Notre Dame   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-1011-0_3     Document Type: Chapter

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