Near-field optical studies of local photomodification in nanostructured materials

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 194, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 574-577

  Bragg, W D ^a   Safonov, V P ^a,b   Kim, W ^a   Banerjee, K ^a   Young, M R ^a,c   Zhu, J G ^a   Ying, Z C ^a   Armstrong, R L ^a   Shalaev, V M ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION AND ELECTROMETRY   (Russian Federation)

^c MCI Worldcom   (United States)

Author keywords

Fractal; Nanostructured materials; Photomodification; Photon scanning tunnelling microscopy

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; PHOTONS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SILVER NANOPARTICLES;

AGGREGATES OF SILVER NANOPARTICLES; ATOMIC-FORCE-MICROSCOPY; FRACTAL AGGREGATES; NANOSECOND LASER PULSE; NEAR FIELDS; OPTICAL RESPONSE; OPTICAL STUDY; PHOTOMODIFICATION; PHOTON SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; THRESHOLD ENERGY DENSITY;

FRACTALS;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CONFERENCE PAPER; LIGHT SCATTERING; MICROSCOPY; NEODYMIUM LASER; OPTICS; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING NEAR FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0033028234     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2818.1999.00542.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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