Imaging and steering an optical wireless nanoantenna link

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Dregely, Daniel ^a,b   Lindfors, Klas ^a,b,c   Lippitz, Markus ^a,b,d   Engheta, Nader ^e   Totzeck, Michael ^f   Giessen, Harald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^f CARL ZEISS SMT AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION NETWORK; LUMINESCENCE; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; FLUORESCENCE; OPTICAL NANOANTENNA; OPTICS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; RADIATION; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84904011424     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5354     Document Type: Article

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