Observing Optical Plasmons on a Single Nanometer Scale

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Cohen, Moshik ^a,b   Shavit, Reuven ^b   Zalevsky, Zeev ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

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EID: 84926385686     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep04096     Document Type: Article

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