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Daniel Torrent1, Andreas Håkansson, Francisco Cervera

  • 1Wave Phenomena Group, Nanophotonics Technology Center, Polytechnic University of Valencia, C/Camino de Vera s/n, E-46022 Valencia, Spain.

Physical Review Letters
|June 29, 2006
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