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by fitzwatermellow 3627 days ago
Link to research paper: "Shrinking light to allow forbidden transitions on the atomic scale"

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/353/6296/263

"...in principle it has potential to enable the full use of the periodic table for optical applications.” Wow. Any Physics grad students looking for a topic, I'd say "surface plasmons" are about to get quite a bit more exciting ;)