Super-Resolution by Combination of a Solid Immersion Lens and an Aperture

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Part 2: Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 3 B, 2001, Pages 1778-1782

  Milster, Tom D ^a   Akhavan, Farhad ^a   Bailey, Melissa ^a   Kevin Erwin, J ^a   Felix, David M ^a   Hirota, Kusato ^a   Koester, Steven ^a   Shimura, Kei ^a   Zhang, Yan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Near field optics; Optical data storage; Solid immersion lens; Super resolution

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

DIELECTRIC APERTURES; SOLID IMMERSION LENSES (SIL);

LENSES;

EID: 0035267482     PISSN: 00214922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/jjap.40.1778     Document Type: Article

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