Near Field Scanning Optical Microscopy (NSOM, SNOM, NFOM) Stephanie Pruzinsky Group Meeting, June 6, 2002
Near-Field v. Far-Field 0.61 n sin 0 d = Far-Field (Diffraction Limited) d min ~ /2 - Near-Field (Evanescent) Light with spatial frequencies are present in the tip but decay within one wavelength d min ~ 1 – 20 nm has been reported d min ~ 50 – 100nm is more common
Typical NSOM Setup
WITEC NSOM Setup
NSOM Probe Techniques ApertureAperturelessSTOM
NSOM Aperture Probes 300 nm Fiber-Pulling Chemical Etching Aluminum Deposition Evanescent Decay
WITEC Microfabricated NSOM Probes wafer with 228 tips Si cantilever hollow Al pyramid tip ~ 100 nm
NSOM Applications Fluorescence imaging tagged in situ biological samples phase-separated or patterned films and monolayers single dye molecules Microspectroscopy quantum dots nanoparticles plasmonic crystals photonic crystals Laser ablation localized MALDI mass spectrometry Photolithography, localized photochemistry…
NSOM Fluorescence Imaging of Single Dye Molecules 0˚0˚ 2.1˚ 13.5˚
NSOM Spectroscopy of Quantum Dots
NSOM of 2D Photonic Crystals 1 µm 100 nm