This up-to-date overview describes in detail the physics of localized surface plasmon polaritons excited near fine metallic structures and the principles of nea

Covers not only near-field optical microscopy but also wider fields such as local spectroscopy, nano-scale optical processing, quantum near-field optics, and at

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