Conditions for primitive-lattice-vector-direction equal contrasts in four-beam-interference lithography

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 4801-4813

  Stay, Justin L ^a   Gaylord, Thomas K ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICS;

BODY-CENTERED CUBIC; FACE-CENTERED CUBIC; FOUR-BEAM INTERFERENCE; INTERFERENCE PATTERNS; LATTICE VECTORS; SADDLE POINT; SIMPLE CUBIC; WAVE VECTOR;

MOLECULAR PHYSICS;

EID: 70249141629     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.004801     Document Type: Article

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