Antenna effects in terahertz apertureless near-field optical microscopy

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 2715-2717

  Wang, Kanglin ^a   Mittleman, Daniel M ^a   Van Der Valk, Nick C J ^b   Planken, Paul C M ^b  

^a Rice University   (United States)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH REDUCTION; INCIDENT FIELD; INDUCTIVE COUPLING; NEAR-FIELD MICROSCOPY;

ANTENNAS; BANDWIDTH; COPPER; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SURFACE PROPERTIES; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

EID: 8344223831     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1797554     Document Type: Article

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