The industrial demand for smaller structures
required for the manufacture of quantum devices and
high density recording media have resulted in the
need for fabrication technology at the nanometer
scale. It is shown in this text that
laser/microstructure interaction can break the
diffraction limit, creating nanoscale surface
modifications in both localized and parallel
fashions. Two fundamental problems required for
predictive optical nanolithography are addressed
here: the electrodynamic response of laser energy in
the vicinity of micro/nanostructures, and the
resulting energy...