A design of reflection scanning near-field optical microscope and its application to AlGaAs/GaAs heterostructures

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 68, Issue 25, 1996, Pages 3620-3622

  Guttroff, G ^a   Keto, J M ^a   Shih, C K ^a   Anselm, A ^b   Streetman, B G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

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EID: 0013600080     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.115749     Document Type: Review

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