Optics at the nanometre scale

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

Volumn 362, Issue 1817, 2004, Pages 701-717

  Pohl, D W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

History; Nano optics; Near field optics; Scanning near field optical microscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842525041     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2003.1342     Document Type: Review

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