Exceptional points and enhanced nanoscale sensing with a plasmon-exciton hybrid system

Hong Jiang; Weidong Zhang; Guowei Lu; Lulu Ye; Hai Lin; Jinglin Tang; Zhaohang Xue; Zheng Li; Haitan Xu; Qihuang Gong

doi:10.1364/PRJ.445855

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