Corrugated SNOM probe with enhanced energy throughput

Opto-Electronics Review

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 451-457

  Antosiewicz, T J ^a   Szoplik, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Photon plasmon coupling; Scanning near field optical microscope SNOM; SNOM probes; SNOM resolution; Tapered fibre metal coated corrugated SNOM probes

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; METAL COATINGS; MICROSCOPES; SURFACE PLASMONS;

APERTURE PROBES; DIPOLAR FIELDS; METAL-COATED; METAL-DIELECTRIC INTERFACE; OPTIMISATIONS; PLASMON COUPLING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL APPROXIMATION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS;

PROBES;

EID: 53149139278     PISSN: 12303402     EISSN: 18963757     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/s11772-008-0048-6     Document Type: Article

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