Formation of fine near-field scanning optical microscopy tips. Part II. By laser-heated pulling and bending

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 74, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 3684-3688

  Lazarev, Alexander ^a   Fang, Nicholas ^a   Luo, Qi ^a   Zhang, Xiang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING (DEFORMATION); COATINGS; LASER ABLATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL FIBERS;

LASER HEATED BENDING;

NEAR FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0041375596     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1589584     Document Type: Article

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