Infrared Polariscopy Imaging of Linear Polymeric Patterns with a Focal Plane Array
Infrared Polariscopy Imaging of Linear Polymeric Patterns with a Focal Plane Array
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DOI:
10.3390/nano9050732
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发表时间:
2019-05-01
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5.3
通讯作者:
Morikawa, Junko
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作者:
Honda, Reo;Ryu, Meguya;Morikawa, Junko
Polariscopy is demonstrated using hyperspectral imaging with a focal plane array (FPA) detector in the infrared (IR) spectral region under illumination by thermal and synchrotron light sources. FPA Fourier-transform IR (FTIR) imaging microspectroscopy is useful for monitoring real time changes at specific absorption bands when combined with a high brightness synchrotron source. In this study, several types of samples with unique structural motifs were selected and used for assessing the capability of polariscopy under this FPA-FTIR imaging technique. It was shown that the time required for polariscopy at IR wavelengths can be substantially reduced by the FPA-FTIR imaging approach. By using natural and laser fabricated polymers with sub-wavelength features, alignment of absorbing molecular dipoles and higher order patterns (laser fabricated structures) were revealed. Spectral polariscopy at the absorption peaks can reveal the orientation of sub-wavelength patterns (even when they are not spatially resolved) or the orientation of the absorbing dipoles.