Optical antenna properties of scanning probe tips: Plasmonic light scattering, tip-sample coupling, and near-field enhancement

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 112, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3766-3773

  Behr, Nicolas ^b   Raschke, Markus B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY (ACS); CRITICAL DIMENSION (CD); LENGTH SCALING; MODEL SCANNING; NEAR FIELD ENHANCEMENT; NEAR FIELDS; NEAR-FIELD MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL (PET) (OPET); OPTICAL ANTENNAS; OPTICAL NEAR FIELDS; PLASMON (CO); QUASI-STATIC (QS) APPROXIMATION; RED-SHIFTS; RESONANT BEHAVIOR; SCANNING PROBES; SPATIAL RESOLUTION (SR); SURFACE PLASMON (SP) EXCITATIONS; TIP APEX; TIP RADIUS; TIP SAMPLE DISTANCE;

ANTENNA ACCESSORIES; GOLD; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; PLASMONS; SCANNING;

ELECTRIC EXCITATION;

EID: 47249125784     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp7098009     Document Type: Article

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