Self-assembled conjugated polymer spheres as fluorescent microresonators

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Tabata, Kenichi ^a   Braam, Daniel ^b   Kushida, Soh ^a   Tong, Liang ^a   Kuwabara, Junpei ^a   Kanbara, Takaki ^a   Beckel, Andreas ^b   Lorke, Axel ^b   Yamamoto, Yohei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

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EID: 84905460052     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep05902     Document Type: Article

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