Study of surface plasmon chirality induced by Archimedes’ spiral grooves

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 6285-6290

  Ohno, Tomoki ^a   Miyanishi, Shintaro ^a  

^a SHARP CORPORATION   (Japan)

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EID: 85010105799     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.006285     Document Type: Article

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