A near-field scanning optical microscope with a high q-factor piezoelectric sensing element

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 75, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1796-1798

  Davydov, Dmitri N ^a   Shelimov, Konstantin B ^a   Haslett, Thomas L ^a   Moskovits, Martin ^a  

^a Photonics Research Ontario   (Canada)

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EID: 0001144112     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.124823     Document Type: Article

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