Electroless nickel plating under continuous ultrasonic irradiation to fabricate a near-field probe whose metal coat decreases in thickness toward the tip

Optical Review

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 225-227

  Saito, Yuichi ^a   Mononobe, Shuji ^b,d   Ohtsu, Motoichi ^c   Honma, Hideo ^a  

^a KANTO GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KANAGAWA ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d TOYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electroless plating; Etching; Metallization; Non contact atomic force microscope; NSOM; Optical fiber; SNOM; Ultrasonic wave

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846515270     PISSN: 13406000     EISSN: 13499432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10043-006-0225-0     Document Type: Article

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2. Near-Field Nano/Atom Optics and Technology, ed. M. Ohtsu (Springer-Verlag, Tokyo, 1998).
3. S. Mononobe, Y. Saito, M. Ohtsu and H. Honma: Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 43 (2004) 2862.