Reciprocity theory of apertureless scanning near-field optical microscopy with point-dipole probes

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 8173-8182

  Esslinger, Moritz ^a   Vogelgesang, Ralf ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

Author keywords

apertureless near field microscopy; Born series interaction; imaging theory; reciprocity theorem; SNOM

Indexed keywords

APERTURELESS NEAR-FIELD MICROSCOPY; APERTURELESS SCANNING; APERTURELESS SNOM; BORN SERIES; CLOSE PROXIMITY; CRITICAL ISSUES; DIFFRACTION LIMITS; EMPIRICAL FINDINGS; IMAGING THEORY; MEASURED SIGNALS; NEAR FIELD MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL CONTRAST; POINT-LIKE SCATTERING; PROBE TIPS; RECIPROCITY THEOREM; RECIPROCITY THEORY; RECORDED SIGNALS; SCANNING NEAR-FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SUBWAVELENGTH SCALE; TERSOFF AND HAMANN; TUNNELING CURRENT;

DIFFRACTION; NEAR FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

PROBES;

NANOMATERIAL;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIGHT; MICROSCOPY, SCANNING PROBE; NANOSTRUCTURES; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84866654627     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn302864d     Document Type: Article

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