Optical near-field interaction between neighbouring micro/Nano-particles

Journal of Laser Micro Nanoengineering

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 14-18

  Wang, Zeng Bo ^a   Guo, Wei ^a   Luk'yanchuk, Boris ^b   Whitehead, David J ^a   Li, Lin ^a   Liu, Zhu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b DATA STORAGE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Coupling; Energy flux; Near field effects; Near field interaction; Surface nanopatterning

Indexed keywords

EID: 57149131716     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18800688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2961/jlmn.2008.01.0004     Document Type: Article

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