Broadband infrared vibrational nano-spectroscopy using thermal blackbody radiation

Optics Express

Volumn 23, Issue 25, 2015, Pages 32063-32074

  O'Callahan, Brian T ^a   Lewis, William E ^a   Möbius, Silke ^a   Stanley, Jared C ^a   Muller, Eric A ^a   Raschke, Markus B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RESOLUTION; INFRARED RADIATION; NEAR FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PHONONS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SIGNAL ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

BLACK BODY RADIATION; CHEMICAL SPECIFICITY; HETERODYNE SIGNALS; HEXAGONAL BORON NITRIDE (H-BN); ILLUMINATION SOURCES; NANOSCALE SPATIAL RESOLUTION; NEAR FIELD SIGNALS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84959387051     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.032063     Document Type: Article

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