Graphene-enhanced infrared near-field microscopy

Nano Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 4400-4405

  Li, Peining ^a   Wang, Tao ^a   Böckmann, Hannes ^a   Taubner, Thomas ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

evanescent field enhancement; Graphene; graphene plasmonics; near field microscopy; subsurface imaging; subwavelength imaging; superlensing

Indexed keywords

EVANESCENT FIELDS;

NEAR FIELD MICROSCOPY; PLASMONICS; SUB-SURFACE IMAGING; SUBWAVELENGTH IMAGING; SUPERLENSING;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84906087791     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl501376a     Document Type: Article

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