Near-field microscopy and lithography of light-emitting polymers

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

Volumn 362, Issue 1817, 2004, Pages 771-786

  Richards, David ^a   Cacialli, Franco ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conjugated polymers; Nano optics; Polymer blends; Scanning near field optical microscopy (SNOM)

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842484847     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2003.1346     Document Type: Article

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