Tip-geometry effects in circularly polarized light emission from a scanning tunneling microscope

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 59, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 5126-5133

  Anisimovas, Egidijus ^a   Johansson, Peter ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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EID: 4243342302     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.59.5126     Document Type: Article

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