Approaching the strong coupling limit in single plasmonic nanorods interacting with J-aggregates

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Zengin, Gülis ^a   Johansson, Göran ^a   Johansson, Peter ^a,b   Antosiewicz, Tomasz J ^a,c   Käll, Mikael ^a   Shegai, Timur ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

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EID: 84886999657     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03074     Document Type: Article

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