Near-field solid immersion lens microscope with advanced compact mechanical design

Optical Engineering

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2006, Pages

  Chen, Tao ^a   Milster, Tom ^a   Park, Sang Ki ^a   McCarthy, Brendan ^a   Sarid, Dror ^a   Poweleit, Christian ^b   Menendez, Jose ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Microscopy; Near field; Optical data storage; Solid immersion lens

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

COMPACT MECHANICAL PACKAGE; DIGITAL VERSATILE DISCS; SOLID IMMERSION LENS;

OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES;

EID: 33846068923     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2361276     Document Type: Article

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