Development of functional nanoprobes for optical near-field characterization

Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Volumn 22, Issue 33, 2010, Pages

  Jia, Y ^a   Li, H ^b   Zhang, B ^a   Wei, X ^a   Zhang, Z ^b   Liu, Z ^b   Xu, Y ^a  

^a State University   (United States)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC VERSIONS; FLUORESCENCE LIFETIME MEASUREMENTS; NANO SCALE; NANO-SCALE APERTURE; NEAR-FIELD IMAGES; NONLINEAR OPTICAL PROCESS; OPTICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL NEAR FIELD; OPTICAL SIGNALS; OPTICAL SOURCE; OPTICAL STRUCTURES; OPTICAL TRANSMISSIONS; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; SILICA FIBERS; SINGLE NANOWIRES; SUB-WAVELENGTH;

FLUORESCENCE; HARMONIC GENERATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; NANOPROBES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOWIRES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; SILICA;

NEAR FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; GENETIC PROCEDURES; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR PROBE; PARTICLE SIZE; SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPY; SYNTHESIS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

MICROSCOPY, SCANNING PROBE; MOLECULAR PROBE TECHNIQUES; MOLECULAR PROBES; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE;

EID: 77956896872     PISSN: 09538984     EISSN: 1361648X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/22/33/334218     Document Type: Article

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