Ultrahigh resolution scattering near-field vibrational microscopy with single molecule sensitivity

Catalin C. Neacsu, Jens Dreyer, Nicolas Behr, Markus B. Raschke
January, 2006
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Abstract

Scanning probe vibrational Raman microscopy with single molecule sensitivity is demonstrated. This is facilitated by unique optical antenna properties of the metallic probe tip and resulting plasmonic tip-sample coupling providing sub-10 nm spatial resolution.

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Conference paper
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In: 2006 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, IEEE