Ultrathin nanostructured metals for highly transmissive plasmonic subtractive color filters

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Zeng, Beibei ^a   Gao, Yongkang ^a   Bartoli, Filbert J ^a  

^a Lehigh University   (United States)

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EID: 84885467294     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02840     Document Type: Article

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