Enhancement of the weak scattered signal in apertureless near-field scanning infrared microscopy

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 74, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 3670-3674

  Stebounova, Larissa ^a   Akhremitchev, Boris B ^b   Walker, Gilbert C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; INFRARED RADIATION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; OSCILLATIONS; SCANNING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

DIELECTRIC PROBES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 0042377545     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1592876     Document Type: Article

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