Gold nanoparticle tips for optical field confinement in infrared scattering near-field optical microscopy

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 12302-12312

  Wenzel, Marc Tobias ^a   Härtling, Thomas ^a   Olk, Phillip ^a   Kehr, Susanne C ^a   Grafström, Stefan ^a   Winnerl, Stephan ^b   Helm, Manfred ^b   Eng, Lukas M ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; GOLD; NANOPARTICLES; PHONONS;

GOLD NANOPARTICLES; INFRARED SCATTERING; MID INFRARED (MID IR); NEAR FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL INVESTIGATION; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PHONON-POLARITON; SPATIAL CONFINEMENT;

METAL NANOPARTICLES;

GOLD; NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFRARED RADIATION; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GOLD; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFRARED RAYS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOPARTICLES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 49149113682     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.012302     Document Type: Article

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