Mode conversion of propagating surface plasmons in nanophotonic networks induced by structural symmetry breaking

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Pan, Deng ^a   Wei, Hong ^a   Jia, Zhili ^a   Xu, Hongxing ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

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EID: 84900986494     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep04993     Document Type: Article

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