Recent progress of nano-technology with NSOM

Micron

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 409-426

  Kim, JunHo ^a   Song, Ki Bong ^b  

^a SolarLight Ltd   (South Korea)

^b Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Nano scale spectroscopy; Near field optics; Plasmonic device; Probe technology

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; NEAR FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

NANO-SCALE SPECTROSCOPY; NEAR-FIELD OPTICS; PLASMONIC DEVICE; PROBE TECHNOLOGY;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 33846409521     PISSN: 09684328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micron.2006.06.010     Document Type: Article

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