Tip-enhanced optical spectroscopy

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

Volumn 362, Issue 1817, 2004, Pages 807-819

  Hartschuh, Achim ^a   Beversluis, Michael R ^a   Bouhelier, Alexandre ^a   Novotny, Lukas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluorescence imaging; Near field optics; Raman spectroscopy; Second harmonic generation

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842589305     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2003.1348     Document Type: Article

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