Metal microneedle fabrication using twisted light with spin

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 17967-17973

  Omatsu, Takashige ^a   Chujo, Keisuke ^a   Miyamoto, Katsuhiko ^a   Okida, Masahito ^a   Nakamura, Kazuki ^a   Aoki, Nobuyuki ^a   Morita, Ryuji ^b  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; FABRICATION;

AVERAGE LENGTH; METAL SURFACES; MICRONEEDLE ARRAYS; MICRONEEDLES; TARGET SURFACE;

NEEDLES;

ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; ELECTRODE; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NEEDLE; OPTICAL ROTATION; SOLID STATE LASER; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ELECTRODES; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NEEDLES; OPTICAL ROTATION;

EID: 77956368309     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.017967     Document Type: Article

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