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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Visser, T. Surface plasmons at work?. Nature Phys 2, 509–510 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys372
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