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Chun-Chieh Yu1, Yuancheng Jing1, Wei Xiong2,3,4
1Department of Chemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA.
Light, Science & Applications
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Abstract:
Tip-enhanced vibrational sum frequency generation (VSFG) spectroscopy is proposed and demonstrated. Incorporation with the plasmon cavities leads to significant signal amplification-up to 14 orders of magnitude.
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