Near-field microscopy by elastic light scattering from a tip

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 362, Issue 1817, 2004, Pages 787-805

  Keilmann, Fritz ^a   Hillenbrand, Rainer ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Apertureless optical near field microscopy; Infrared microscopy; Near field microscopy; Plasmon resonance

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842432477     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2003.1347     Document Type: Article

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