A Bright Future for Subwavelength Light Sources

By Tineke Thio

Generating tiny points of light for such things as storing data on optical disks is aided by a new theory involving evanescent waves

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January-February 2006

Volume 94, Number 1
Page 40

DOI: 10.1511/2006.57.40

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Atomic-force microscope measurements used to create this image are from the IN-VSEE project, Arizona State University; illustration by David Schneider

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