Extremely confined gap surface-plasmon modes excited by electrons

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Raza, Søren ^a   Stenger, Nicolas ^a   Pors, Anders ^b   Holmgaard, Tobias ^c   Kadkhodazadeh, Shima ^a   Wagner, Jakob B ^a   Pedersen, Kjeld ^c   Wubs, Martijn ^a   Bozhevolnyi, Sergey I ^b   Mortensen, N Asger ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD;

ABSORBANCE; ASYMMETRY; ELECTRON; PLASMA; RESONANCE;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; ELECTRON BEAM; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; EXCITATION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84902817968     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5125     Document Type: Article

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