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Sebastian Jäger1, Andreas M Kern, Mario Hentschel
1Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany. sebastian.jaeger@uni-tuebingen.de
Nano Letters
|July 3, 2013
Abstract:
We introduce a new optical near-field mapping method, namely utilizing the plasmon-mediated luminescence from the apex of a sharp gold nanotip. The tip acts as a quasi-point light source which does not suffer from bleaching and gives a spatial resolution of ≤25 nm. We demonstrate our method by imaging the near field of azimuthally and radially polarized plasmonic modes of nonluminescent aluminum oligomers.

