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International Journal of Optics
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 916482, 9 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/916482
Research Article
Plasmonic Band-Pass Microfilters for LWIR Absorption Spectroscopy
1Department of Physics, Colorado School of Mines, 1500 Illinois Street, Golden, CO 80401, USA
2Thin Film Technologies Division, ITN Energy Systems, Inc., 8130 Shaffer Parkway, Littleton, CO 80127, USA
Received 31 October 2011; Revised 13 January 2012; Accepted 13 January 2012
Academic Editor: K. S. Chiang
Copyright © 2012 J. M. Banks et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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