Plasmon-driven surface catalysis in hybridized plasmonic gap modes

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Wang, Hui ^a   Liu, Ting ^a   Huang, Yingzhou ^a   Fang, Yurui ^b,c   Liu, Ruchuan ^a   Wang, Shuxia ^a   Wen, Weijia ^a,d   Sun, Mengtao ^a,b  

^a CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^c CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^d HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

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EID: 84923303601     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep07087     Document Type: Article

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