Highly reproducible near-field optical imaging with sub-20-nm resolution based on template-stripped gold pyramids

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 9168-9174

  Johnson, Timothy W ^a   Lapin, Zachary J ^b,c   Beams, Ryan ^c   Lindquist, Nathan C ^a,d   Rodrigo, Sergio G ^c   Novotny, Lukas ^b,c   Oh, Sang Hyun ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^d BETHEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

near field scanning optical microscopy; optical antenna; plasmonics; single molecule fluorescence; super resolution imaging; template stripping; tip enhanced Raman scattering

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL ANTENNAS; PLASMONICS; SINGLE-MOLECULE; SUPER RESOLUTION IMAGING; TEMPLATE STRIPPING;

FABRICATION; FLUORESCENCE; GOLD; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MOLECULES; NEAR FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL IMAGE STORAGE; PROBES; QUANTUM YIELD;

AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURE;

GOLD; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

GOLD; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NANOSTRUCTURES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN;

EID: 84867806603     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn303496g     Document Type: Article

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