High-transmission solid-immersion apertured optical probes for near-field scanning optical microscopy

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2005, Pages

  Dechant, A ^a   Dew, S K ^a   Irvine, S E ^a   Elezzabi, A Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTIC MODULI; FILM GROWTH; GALLIUM COMPOUNDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; MICROSTRUCTURE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; PROBES; SILICA; THIN FILMS; THROUGHPUT;

GALLIUM PHOSPHIDE (GAP); GAS SCATTERING; NEAR-FIELD OPTICAL PROBES; SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPY (SPM);

NEAR FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

EID: 19744383354     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1842864     Document Type: Article

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