Encapsulated annealing: Enhancing the plasmon quality factor in lithographically-defined nanostructures

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Bosman, Michel ^a   Zhang, Lei ^b   Duan, Huigao ^c   Tan, Shu Fen ^b   Nijhuis, Christian A ^a,b   Qiu, Cheng Wei ^b   Yang, Joel K W ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d SINGAPORE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN   (Singapore)

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EID: 84903782273     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep05537     Document Type: Article

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