Subwavelength surface-relief gratings fabricated by microcontact printing of self-assembled monolayers

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 13, 2001, Pages 2068-2075

  Lopez, Ali G ^a   Craighead, Harold G ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTOMERS; PRINTING; SELF ASSEMBLY;

MICROCONTACT PRINTING;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 0000340424     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.002068     Document Type: Article

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