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Tip-enhanced near-field optical microscopy of quasi-1 D nanostructures
Miriam Böhmler1, Achim Hartschuh
1Department Chemie and CeNS, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Butenandtstr. 5-13 E, 81377 München, Germany.
Abstract:
High-resolution imaging and spectroscopy of single CdSe nanowires and carbon nanotubes using tip-enhanced near-field optical microscopy increases the optical excitation and emission rates within a nanoscale sample volume. The resulting signal enhancement for Raman scattering and photoluminescence as well as the tip-sample-distance dependence are investigated.
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