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Nature Materials 2, 210 - 211 (2003)
doi:10.1038/nmat865
Nanoparticle waveguides: Watching energy transfer
Joachim R. Krenn1
- Joachim R. Krenn is at the Institute for Experimental Physics and Erwin Schrödinger Institute for Nanoscale Research, Karl-Franzens-University Graz, A-8010 Graz, Austria. e-mail: joachim.krenn@uni-graz.at
Abstract
There may be plenty of room at the bottom, but the size of conventional optical elements is restricted by the diffraction limit of light. Plasmon waveguides made from metal nanoparticle chains may allow a drastic reduction in the size of photonic devices.
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