A reflection-mode apertureless scanning near-field optical microscope developed from a commercial scanning probe microscope
A reflection-mode apertureless scanning near-field optical microscope developed from a commercial scanning probe microscope
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由商用扫描探针显微镜发展而来的反射式无孔径扫描近场光学显微镜
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1998
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P. Royer
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G. Wurtz;R. Bachelot;P. Royer
We have developed a polyvalent reflection-mode apertureless scanning near-field optical microscope (SNOM) from a commercial scanning probe microscope (SPM). After having explained our motivations, we describe the instrument precisely, by specifying how we have integrated optical elements to the initial SPM, by taking advantage of its characteristics, and without modifying its initial functions. The instrument allows five different reflection-mode SNOM configurations and enables polarization studies. Three types of SNOM probes can be used: dielectric, semiconducting, and metallic probes. The latter are homemade probes whose successful use, as probes for atomic force microscopy, by the commercial SPM has been experimentally demonstrated. Using silicon–nitride (dielectric) probes, one of the five configurations has been experimentally tested with two samples. The first sample is made of nanometric aluminum dots on a glass substrate and the second sample is the output front facet of a laser diode. The prelimi...