Photoluminescence of a single complex plasmonic nanoparticle

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Zhang, Tianyue ^a   Lu, Guowei ^a   Shen, Hongming ^a   Shi, Kebin ^a   Jiang, Yuanyuan ^b   Xu, Dongsheng ^b   Gong, Qihuang ^a  

^a Mesoscopic Phys Lab   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84893305268     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03867     Document Type: Article

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