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Nature Physics 2, 509 - 510 (2006)
doi:10.1038/nphys372

Subject Categories: Optical physics | Electronics, photonics and device physics | Nanotechnology

Plasmonics: Surface plasmons at work?

Taco D. Visser1

  1. Taco D. Visser is in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the Free University, Amsterdam, NL-1081 HV The Netherlands. e-mail: tvisser@nat.vu.nl


Further analysis of controversial data questioning the role of surface plasmons in extraordinary optical transmission reasserts the conventional view, and suggests there is still much to be done to understand the details of this phenomenon.

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