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Evanescent-wave tunneling of visible light is shown to be sensitive to the nanometer air gaps between dielectrics of high refractive indices. The narrow air gap in molecular-force bonded GaP/GaP was then measured to be 1.3 nm.
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Liau et al. (2001) studied this question.
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