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Extinction Near-Field Optical Microscopy

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Author(s)

H F. Hamann, M Larbadi, S Barzen, T Brown, Alan Gallagher, David Nesbitt

Abstract

Two AFM-assisted, apertureless, optical-imaging methods are presented. These overcome the severe resolution consrtaints of aperture-based Near-field Scanning Optical Microscopy by probing the highly localized mutual near-field interaction between AFM-tip and sample. Specifically, we monitor the evanescent field scattering and the extinction of the reflected intensity while the tip is scanned over Au-nanoparticles. We describe a significant improvement in optically detected spatial resolution (approximately equal to} 2 nm to 3 nm) and introduce a new, more quantitative method for optical imaging.
Citation
Optics Communications
Volume
227
Issue
No. 1-3
Pub Type
Journals

Keywords

AFM, extinction, nanoparticles, NSOM, resolution, scattering

Citation

Hamann, H. , Larbadi, M. , Barzen, S. , Brown, T. , Gallagher, A. and Nesbitt, D. (2003), Extinction Near-Field Optical Microscopy, Optics Communications (Accessed November 5, 2025)

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Created October 31, 2003, Updated October 12, 2021
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