Near-field solid immersion lens (SIL) microscope with advanced compact mechanical design

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5380, Issue , 2004, Pages 634-641

  Chen, Tao ^a   Felix, David ^a   Park, Sang Ki ^a   Hauser, Paul ^a   McCarthy, Brendan ^a   Sarid, Dror ^a   Poweleit, Christian ^b   Menendez, Jose ^b   Milster, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Microscopy; Near field; Optical data storage; Solid immersion lens

Indexed keywords

MECHANICAL DESIGN; NEAR-FIELD; SOLID IMMERSION LENS; SOLID IMMERSION LENS (SIL);

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; DATA RECORDING; LIGHTING; MICROSCOPES; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; VIDEODISKS;

LENSES;

EID: 10044264688     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.557055     Document Type: Conference Paper

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