Pressure-assisted tip-enhanced Raman imaging at a resolution of a few nanometres

Nature Photonics

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 473-477

  Yano, Taka Aki ^a   Verma, Prabhat ^a   Saito, Yuika ^a   Ichimura, Taro ^a   Kawata, Satoshi ^a,b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTERNAL PRESSURES; HIGH RESOLUTION; LOCAL DISTORTION; MICROSCOPIC TECHNIQUES; MOLECULAR RESOLUTION; PASSIVE TECHNIQUE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TOPOGRAPHIC INFORMATION;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES; SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPY; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

MOLECULES;

EID: 68749095698     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2009.74     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Eigler, D. M. & Schweizer, E. K. Positioning single atoms with a scanning tunneling microscope. Nature 344, 524-526 (1990).
2. Bensimon, A. et al. Alignment and sensitive detection of DNA by a moving interface. Science 265, 2096-2098 (1994).
3. Sugimoto, Y. et al. Chemical identification of individual surface atoms by atomic force microscopy. Nature 446, 64-67 (2007).
4. Willig, K. I., Rizzoli, S. O., Westphal, V., Jahn, R. & Hell, S. W. STED microscopy reveals that synaptotagmin remains clustered after synaptic vesicle exocytosis. Nature 440, 935-939 (2006).
5. Betzig, E. et al. Imaging intracellular fluorescent proteins at nanometer resolution. Science 313, 1642-1645 (2006).
6. Huang, B., Wang, W., Bates, M. & Zhuang, X. Three-dimensional super-resolution imaging by stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy. Science 319, 810-813 (2008).
7. Pohl, D. W., Denk, W. & Lanz, M. Optical stethoscopy: image recording with resolution λ/20. Appl. Phys. Lett. 44, 651-653 (1984).
8. Zenhausern, F., Oboyle, M. P. & Wickramasinghe, H. K. Apertureless near-field optical microscope. Appl. Phys. Lett. 65, 1623-1625 (1994).
9. Bachelot, R., Gleyzes, P. & Boccara, A. C. Near-field optical microscope based on local perturbation of a diffraction spot. Opt. Lett. 20, 1924-1926 (1995).
10. Hayazawa, N., Inouye, Y., Sekkat, Z. & Kawata, S. Metallized tip amplification of near-field Raman scattering. Opt. Commun. 183, 333-336 (2000).
11. Stöckle, R. M., Suh, Y. D., Deckert, V. & Zenobi, R. Nanoscale chemical analysis by tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. Chem. Phys. Lett. 318, 131-136 (2000).
12. Anderson, M. S. Locally enhanced Raman spectroscopy with an atomic force microscope. Appl. Phys. Lett. 76, 3130-3132 (2000).
13. Sánchez, E. J., Novotny, L. & Xie, X. S. Near-field fluorescence microscopy based on two-photon excitation with metal tips. Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 4014-4017 (1999).
14. Zhang, W. H., Yeo, B. S., Schmid, T. & Zenobi, R. Single molecule tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy with silver tips. J. Phys. Chem. C 111, 1733-1738 (2007).
15. Neacsu, C. C., Dreyer, J., Behr, N. & Raschke, M. B. Scanning probe Raman spectroscopy with single molecule sensitivity. Phys. Rev. B 73, 193406 (2006).
16. Steidtner, J. & Pettinger, B. Tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy and microscopy on single dye molecules with 15 nm resolution. Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 236101 (2008).
17. Ichimura, T., Hayazawa, N., Hashimoto, M., Inouye, Y. & Kawata, S. Tipenhanced coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering for vibrational nano-imaging. Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 220801 (2004).
18. Hartschuh, A., Sanchez, E. J., Xie, X. S. & Novotny, L. High-resolution near-field Raman microscopy of single-walled carbon nanotubes. Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 095503 (2003).
19. Anderson, N., Hartschuh, A., Cronin, S. & Novotny, L. Nanoscale vibrational analysis of single-walled carbon nanotubes. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 127, 2533-2537 (2005).
20. Hillenbrand, R., Taubner, T. & Keilmann, F. Phonon-enhanced light-matter interaction at the nanometre scale. Nature 418, 159-162 (2002).
21. Hillenbrand, R. & Keilmann, F. Material-specific mapping of metal/semiconductor/dielectric nanosystems at 10-nm resolution by backscattering near-field optical microscopy. Appl. Phys. Lett. 80, 25-27 (2002).
22. Ichimura, T. et al. Temporal fluctuation of tip-enhanced Raman spectra of adenine molecules. J. Phys. Chem. C 111, 9460-9464 (2007).
23. 60 molecules. Phys. Rev. B 73, 045416 (2006).
24. Yano, T., Inouye, Y. & Kawata, S. Nanoscale uniaxial pressure effect of a carbon nanotube bundle on tip-enhanced near field Raman spectra. Nano Lett. 6, 1269-1273 (2006).
25. Ichimura, T. et al. Subnanometric near-field Raman investigation in the vicinity of the metallic nanostructure. Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 186101 (2009).
26. Reich, S., Thomsen, C. & Ordejón, P. Phonon eigenvectors of chiral nanotubes. Phys. Rev. B 64, 195416 (2001).
27. Boresi, A. P. & Sidebottom, O. M. Advanced Mechanics of Materials (John Wiley & Sons, 1985).
28. Saito, T. et al. Size control of metal nanoparticle catalysts for the gas-phase synthesis of single-walled carbon nanotubes. J. Phys. Chem. B 109, 10647-10652 (2005).
29. Saito, T. et al. Supermolecular catalysts for the gas-phase synthesis of single-walled carbon nanotubes. J. Phys. Chem. B 110, 5849-5853 (2006).