Pump-probe scanning near field optical microscopy: Sub-wavelength resolution chemical imaging and ultrafast local dynamics

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 15, 2012, Pages

  Karki, Khadga ^a   Namboodiri, Mahesh ^a   Khan, Tahir Zeb ^a   Materny, Arnulf ^a  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 ,4 ,9 ,10-PERYLENE-TETRACARBOXYLIC-DIANHYDRIDE; CHEMICAL IMAGING; CHEMICAL SELECTIVITY; EXCITON DYNAMICS; FEMTOSECOND TIME-RESOLVED; HIGH REPETITION RATE; LOCAL DYNAMICS; PUMP-PROBE; PUMP-PROBE EXPERIMENTS; QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION; RATE MODELS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SUBWAVELENGTH RESOLUTION; TRANSIENT ABSORPTION SPECTRA; TWO-COLOR; ULTRA-FAST; VIDEO RATES;

DYNAMICS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PROBES;

OPTICAL DATA STORAGE;

EID: 84859799142     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3701724     Document Type: Article

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