Enhanced optical near field from a bowtie aperture

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 88, Issue 15, 2006, Pages

  Jin, Eric X ^a   Xu, Xianfan ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APERTURES; BOWTIE APERTURE; LASER ILLUMINATION;

ALUMINUM; ARGON; LASER OPTICS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; NEAR FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

METALLIC FILMS;

EID: 33646151614     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2194013     Document Type: Article

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