Ablation of thin metal films by short-pulsed lasers coupled through near-field scanning optical microscopy probes

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Hwang, David Jen ^a   Chimmalgi, Anant ^a   Grigoropoulos, Costas P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEAR-FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY (NSOM); TEMPORAL WIDTH; THIN METAL FILMS;

LASER ABLATION; LENSES; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

METALLIC FILMS;

EID: 33644590266     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2172723     Document Type: Article

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