Near-field optical microscopy and spectroscopy with pointed probes

Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

Volumn 57, Issue , 2006, Pages 303-331

  Novotny, Lukas ^a   Stranick, Stephan J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Enhanced probe; Evanescent probe; Scatter probe

Indexed keywords

INFRARED DETECTORS; LIGHTING; RAMAN SCATTERING; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

ENHANCED-PROBE; EVANESCENT-PROBE; SCATTER-PROBE;

OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

EID: 33646717598     PISSN: 0066426X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.physchem.56.092503.141236     Document Type: Conference Paper

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