Bright cathodoluminescent thin films for scanning nano-optical excitation and imaging

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 10397-10404

  Kaz, David M ^a,c   Bischak, Connor G ^a   Hetherington, Craig L ^a   Howard, Hannah H ^a   Marti, Xavier ^b   Clarkson, James D ^b   Adamo, Carolina ^d,f   Schlom, Darrell G ^d   Ramesh, Ramamoorthy ^a,b,c   Aloni, Shaul ^c   Ogletree, D Frank ^c   Ginsberg, Naomi S ^a,c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California Berkeley   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

^e Kavli Energy NanoSciences Institute   (United States)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cathodoluminescence; imaging; nano optical; nanopatterning; near field; thin films

Indexed keywords

FOCUSED ELECTRON BEAMS; FREE STANDING MEMBRANES; LITHOGRAPHIC PATTERNING; MECHANICAL SCANNING; NANO-OPTICAL; NANOPATTERNING; NEAR FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; NEAR-FIELD;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CATHODOLUMINESCENCE; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; PHOTOEXCITATION;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

ALUMINUM; CERIUM; NANOMATERIAL; NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRODE; ELECTRON; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASER; LUMINESCENCE; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ALUMINUM; CERIUM; ELECTRODES; ELECTRONS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASERS; LUMINESCENCE; MATERIALS TESTING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84888872562     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn404911a     Document Type: Article

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