Light emission from a scanning tunneling microscope: Fully retarded calculation

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 58, Issue 16, 1998, Pages 10823-10834

  Johansson, Peter ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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EID: 0000589045     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.58.10823     Document Type: Article

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