Plasmonic black gold by adiabatic nanofocusing and absorption of light in ultra-sharp convex grooves
10.1038/ncomms1976
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Søndergaard, T., Novikov, S. M., Holmgaard, T., Eriksen, R. L., Beermann, J., Han, Z., Pedersen, K., & Bozhevolnyi, S. I. (2012). Plasmonic black gold by adiabatic nanofocusing and absorption of light in ultra-sharp convex grooves. Nature Communications, 3(1).

Authors 8
  1. Thomas Søndergaard (first)
  2. Sergey M. Novikov (additional)
  3. Tobias Holmgaard (additional)
  4. René L. Eriksen (additional)
  5. Jonas Beermann (additional)
  6. Zhanghua Han (additional)
  7. Kjeld Pedersen (additional)
  8. Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi (additional)
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@article{S_ndergaard_2012, title={Plasmonic black gold by adiabatic nanofocusing and absorption of light in ultra-sharp convex grooves}, volume={3}, ISSN={2041-1723}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms1976}, DOI={10.1038/ncomms1976}, number={1}, journal={Nature Communications}, publisher={Springer Science and Business Media LLC}, author={Søndergaard, Thomas and Novikov, Sergey M. and Holmgaard, Tobias and Eriksen, René L. and Beermann, Jonas and Han, Zhanghua and Pedersen, Kjeld and Bozhevolnyi, Sergey I.}, year={2012}, month=jul }