Directional emission from a single plasmonic scatterer

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Coenen, Toon ^a   Bernal Arango, Felipe ^a   Femius Koenderink, A ^a   Polman, Albert ^a  

^a FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84893839236     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4250     Document Type: Article

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