Near-field scanning optical microscopy
Intragrain Defect Characterization Of Solar Grade Silicon Using Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscopy
... Near-field scanning optical microscopy (NSOM) is a submicron resolution characterization technique that provides both qualitative and quantitative information about the carrier lifetime ...
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Differential Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscopy
... the scanning procedure was minimized; (3) each corner could be filtered separately with different, optimal digital filter parameters; and (4) information from different corners can be used to obtain a final image ...
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Near-field scanning optical microscopy with laser trapping
... and Ke P.C, "Effect of depolarisation of scattered evanescent waves on particle- frapped near-field scannuig optical microscopy", Appl. Gu M., Advanced Opticallmaging Theory (Spr[r] ...
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Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscopy: a Brief Overview
... Why NSOM on semiconductor nanostructures ? The example of a single quantum dot.. 2) Imaging of the spectroscopic properties.. Why NSOM on semiconductor nanostructures?[r] ...
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Theory of probing a photonic crystal with transmission near-field optical microscopy
... While near-field scanning optical microscopy ~ NSOM ! can provide optical images with resolution much better than the diffraction limit, analysis and interpretation of these ...
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Scanning tunneling optical resonance microscopy applied to indium arsenide quantum dot structures
... is near field scanning optical microscopy ...of scanning probe microscopy (SPM) and was first demonstrated in the visible wavelength regime in 1984 by Pohl et ...
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An investigation of phase mask diffraction patterns and fibre Bragg gratings with scanning near field optical microscopy
... difficult. Scanning in columns rather than rows could have solved the problem, except that thermal drift in the z-direction over the time taken to acquire a two- dimensional scan may have endangered the ...
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Scanning near-field optical microscopy with white-light illumination: nanoscale imaging and spectroscopy of resonant systems.
... an optical fibre and guided to the spectrometer and, just as for the other configurations, the full spectrum is acquired on each pixel of the SNOM image, therefore allowing for direct correlation between the ...
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Apertureless near field optical microscopy for fluorescence imaging
... for near-field optical microscopy appeared as early as 1928, when Synge suggested the illumination of samples through a minute hole at the apex of an otherwise opaquely coated cone ...a ...
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Measurement of the local optical phase and amplitude in photonic devices using scanning near field microscopy
... The concept of a coated probe was first suggested in a private communi- cation between Synge and Einstein, in which a metalised quartz cone with a metal free extremity was proposed as a near-field probe. ...
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Toward mid infrared, subdiffraction, spectral mapping of human cells and tissue: SNIM (scanning near field infrared microscopy) tip fabrication
... 3-axis optical stage (using a ceramic magnet (20x5x5 mm 3 ) so that the exposed chalcogenide fiber protruding from the bottom end of the hollow-core cane could be accurately positioned in the etchant to a depth of ...
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Near-field optical microscopy based on microfabricated probes
... an optical beam deflection scheme (Meyer & Amer, 1988). Scanning of the sample in the x-y plane is provided by a closed-loop piezoelectric scanner (scan range 100 mm 100 mm, Physik Instrumente, ...
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Coupling of single quantum dots to photonic crystal cavities investigated by low-temperature scanning near-field optical microscopy
... to fabrication imperfections. The intensity collected by the tip is expected to map the modulus square of the in-plane electric field at the surface of the membrane. 18 Figures 3(b) and 3(d) show the modulus ...
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Electron microscopic measurement of the size of the optical focus in laser scanning microscopy
... bright- field visible radiation to the near-infrared wavelength cho- sen for ablation, as was expected, the focal plane of the beam ...the near-infrared radiation on the sample, the transmission ...
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Imaging of InGaN inhomogeneities using visible apertureless. near-field scanning optical microscope
... probe near-field microscopy. We observe variations in the optical signal from grains as small as 30 nm in ...diameter. Near-field imaging of the InGaN film reveal that some ...
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The application of scanning near field optical imaging to the study of human sperm morphology
... fluorescence microscopy and image analysis with open-access software ...new optical technique (Trumorph system) has been recently described ...and scanning electron microscopies (TEM and SEM), which ...
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Apertureless scanning near field optical microscope with sub-10nm resolution
... by scanning near field optical microscopy 共SNOM兲, 3–8 which uses a nanoscopic aperture—scanned through the near field of the surface—to reduce the illumination/collection ...
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Reflection mode scanning near field optical microscopy: Influence of sample type, tip shape, and polarization of light
... The sample used for these experiments was a similar region of the e-beam etched sample as shown in Fig. 7. Here, the width of the metal lines is 1 m m and the gap between lines is 250 nm. Figure 9 shows shear force and ...
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Apertureless scanning near-field optical microscopy: a comparison between homodyne and heterodyne approaches
... background optical fields that are not re- lated to the field scattered by the tip end can be ...tip field enhancement at the tip ...of near-field components in the pres- ence of a high ...
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Comparative scanning near-field optical microscopy studies of plasmonic nanoparticle concepts
... use scanning near-field optical microscopy (SNOM) to characterize different plasmonic-nanoparticle situations with high spatial and spectral resolution in this comparative ...The ...
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