Immersion lens microscopy of photonic nanostructures and quantum dots

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1051-1059

  Goldberg, Bennett B ^a   Ippolito, S B ^a   Novotny, Lukas ^b   Liu, Zhiheng ^a   Ünlü, M Selim ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Microscopy; Nano optics; Nanostructures; Near field

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; FOCUSING; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MICROOPTICS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

IMMERSION LENS MICROSCOPY; NANOOPTICS; NUMERICAL APERTURE INCREASING LENS; PHOTONIC NANOSTRUCTURES; SOLID IMMERSION LENS;

OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0036765472     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2002.804232     Document Type: Article

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