Skip to main content

Scanning Near-Field Optical Microscopy/Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscopy

  • Chapter
  • First Online:
Compendium of Surface and Interface Analysis
  • 471 Accesses

Abstract

Scanning near-field optical microscopy (SNOM)/near-field scanning optical microscopy (NSOM) is one of the scanning probe microscopies, especially for investigation of optical properties and phenomena in nanometer scale. SNOM/NSOM observation provides high spatial resolution of 10–100 nm that conventional optical microscopes do not achieve, in principle.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Institutional subscriptions

References

  1. Saiki, T., Matsuda, K.: Near-field optical fiber probe optimized for illuminationcollection hybrid mode operation. Appl. Phys. Lett. 74, 2773–2775 (1999)

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  2. Novotny, L., Hecht, B.: Principles of Nano-Optics, 1st edn, pp. 173–224. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2006)

    Book  Google Scholar 

  3. Anger, P., Bharadwaj, P., Novotny, L.: Enhancement and quenching of single molecule fluorescence. Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 113002 (2006)

    Article  Google Scholar 

  4. Hoeppener, C., Novotny, L.: Antenna-based optical imaging of single Ca2 transmembrane proteins in liquids. Nano Lett. 8, 642–646 (2008)

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  5. Keilmann, F., Hillenbrand, R.: Near-field microscopy by elastic light scattering from a tip. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. Lond. A 362, 787–805 (2004)

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  6. Chen, C., Hayazawa, N., Kawata, S.: A 1.7 nm resolution chemical analysis of carbon nanotubes by tip-enhanced Raman imaging in the ambient. Nat. Commun. 5, 3312 (2014)

    Google Scholar 

  7. Okamoto, H., Narushima, T., Nishiyama, Y., Imura, K.: Local optical responses of plasmon resonances visualised by near-field optical imaging. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. (Perspective) 17, 6192–6206 (2015)

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  8. Okamoto, H., Imura, K.: Near-Field Optical Imaging of Nanoscale Optical Fields and Plasmon Waves. Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 47, 6055–6062 (2008)

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  9. Vallius, T., Jefimovs, K., Turunen, J., Vahimaa, P., Svirko, Y.: Optical activity in subwavelength-period arrays of chiral metallic particles. Appl. Phys. Lett. 83, 234–236 (2003)

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  10. Kuwata-Gonokami, M. et al.: Giant optical activity in quasi-two-dimensional planar nanostructures. Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 227401-1-4 (2005)

    Google Scholar 

  11. Schäferling, M., Dregely, D., Hentschel, M. Giessen, H.: Tailoring enhanced optical chirality: Design principles for chiral plasmonic nanostructures. Phys. Rev. X 2, 031010-1-9 (2012)

    Google Scholar 

  12. Narushima, T., Okamoto, H.: Circular dichroism nano-imaging of two-dimensional metal nanostructures. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 15, 13805–13809 (2013)

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  13. Narushima, T., Okamoto, H.: Strong nanoscale optical activity localized in two-dimensional chiral metal nanostructures. J. Phys. Chem. C. 117, 23964–23969 (2013)

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  14. Narushima, T., Hashiyada, S., Okamoto, H.: Nanoscopic study on developing optical activity with increasing chirality for two-dimensional metal nano- structures. ACS photonics 1, 732–738 (2014)

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  15. Hashiyada, S., Narushima, T., Okamoto, H.: Local optical activity in achiral two-dimensional gold nanostructures. J. Phys. Chem. C. 118, 22229–22233 (2014)

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Tetsuya Narushima .

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2018 Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.

About this chapter

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this chapter

Narushima, T. (2018). Scanning Near-Field Optical Microscopy/Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscopy. In: The Surface Science Society of Japan (eds) Compendium of Surface and Interface Analysis. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6156-1_93

Download citation

Publish with us

Policies and ethics