Focusing microprobes based on integrated chains of microspheres

PIERS 2010 Cambridge - Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 419-423

  Astratov, Vasily N ^a   Darafsheh, Arash ^a   Kerr, Matthew D ^a   Allen, Kenneth W ^a   Fried, Nathaniel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FLEXIBLE WAVEGUIDES; FOCUSING SYSTEM; HOLLOW WAVEGUIDES; MICRO-CAPILLARIES; MICRO-PROBES; MULTIMODAL STRUCTURE; NANOSCALE PHOTONICS; NUMERICAL MODELING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SUB-WAVELENGTH;

ELECTROMAGNETISM; MICROSPHERES; NUMERICAL METHODS; REFRACTION; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; WAVEGUIDES;

FOCUSING;

EID: 79951616852     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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