Perpendicular oriented single-pole nano-optical transducer

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 4920-4930

  Şendur, Kürşat ^a  

^a SABANCI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HARD DISK STORAGE; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; RIDGE WAVEGUIDES;

3-D FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; EMERGING APPLICATIONS; HEAT-ASSISTED MAGNETIC RECORDING; MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES; NANO-OPTICAL APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL INTENSITIES; PERPENDICULAR ORIENTATION; TRANSMISSION EFFICIENCY;

TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 77749305226     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.004920     Document Type: Article

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