Plasmonic black metals via radiation absorption by two-dimensional arrays of ultra-sharp convex grooves

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Beermann, Jonas ^a   Eriksen, René L ^a   Holmgaard, Tobias ^b   Pedersen, Kjeld ^b   Bozhevolnyi, Sergey I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

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EID: 84923371544     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep06904     Document Type: Article

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