High transmission nanoscale bowtie-shaped aperture probe for near-field optical imaging

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 26, 2007, Pages

  Wang, Liang ^a   Xu, Xianfan ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT TRANSMISSION; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER;

BOWTIE APERTURE; NEAR-FIELD OPTICAL IMAGING;

PROBES;

EID: 34547304057     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2752542     Document Type: Article

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