Roles of propagating and evanescent waves in solid immersion lens systems

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 23, 1999, Pages 5046-5057

  Milster, Tom D ^a   Jo, Joshua S ^a   Hirota, Kusato ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b TORAY INDUSTRIES INC   (Japan)

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EID: 0001377190     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.005046     Document Type: Article

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