Effects of gap width on vacuum-ultraviolet transmission through submicrometer-period, freestanding transmission gratings

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 22, 1998, Pages 5087-5092

  Balkey, Matthew M ^a   Scime, Earl E ^a   Schattenburg, Mark L ^b   van Beek, Joost ^b  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 0000874514     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.005087     Document Type: Article

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