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Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 22, Issue 9, 090002(2024)

Nanotip design for high-resolution terahertz scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy

Zeliang Zhang^1,2, Pengfei Qi^1,2, Olga Kosavera^1,3, Minghui Deng^1,2, Cheng Gong^1,2、*, Lie Lin^1,4, and Weiwei Liu^1,2

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¹Institute of Modern Optics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300350, China

²Tianjin Key Laboratory of Micro-scale Optical Information Science and Technology, Tianjin 300350, China

³Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119991, Russia

⁴Tianjin Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Sensor and Sensing Network Technology, Tianjin 300350, China

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Zeliang Zhang, Pengfei Qi, Olga Kosavera, Minghui Deng, Cheng Gong, Lie Lin, Weiwei Liu, "Nanotip design for high-resolution terahertz scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy," Chin. Opt. Lett. 22, 090002 (2024)

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Special Issue: SPECIAL ISSUE ON THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF INSTITUTE OF MODERN OPTICS, NANKAI UNIVERSITY

Received: Mar. 4, 2023

Accepted: May. 9, 2024

Published Online: Aug. 30, 2024

The Author Email: Cheng Gong (gongcheng@nankai.edu.cn)

DOI:10.3788/COL202422.090002

CSTR:32184.14.COL202422.090002

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