Broadband infrared vibrational nano-spectroscopy using thermal blackbody radiation
Abstract
Infrared vibrational nano-spectroscopy based on scattering scanning near-field optical microscopy (s-SNOM) provides intrinsic chemical specificity with nanometer spatial resolution. Here we use incoherent infrared radiation from a 1400 K thermal blackbody emitter for broadband infrared (IR) nano-spectroscopy.With optimized interferometric heterodyne signal amplification we achieve few-monolayer sensitivity in phonon polariton spectroscopy and attomolar molecular vibrational spectroscopy. Near-field localization and nanoscale spatial resolution is demonstrated in imaging flakes of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) and determination of its phonon polariton dispersion relation. The signal-to-noise ratio calculations and analysis for different samples and illumination sources provide a reference for irradiance requirements and the attainable near-field signal levels in s-SNOM in general. As a result, the use of a thermal emitter as an IR source thus opens s-SNOM for routine chemical FTIR nano-spectroscopy.
- Authors:
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- Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1240131
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0008807
- Resource Type:
- Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Optics Express
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 23; Journal Issue: 25; Journal ID: ISSN 1094-4087
- Publisher:
- Optical Society of America (OSA)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; near-field microscopy; spectroscopy; infrared
Citation Formats
O’Callahan, Brian T., Lewis, William E., Möbius, Silke, Stanley, Jared C., Muller, Eric A., and Raschke, Markus B. Broadband infrared vibrational nano-spectroscopy using thermal blackbody radiation. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1364/OE.23.032063.
O’Callahan, Brian T., Lewis, William E., Möbius, Silke, Stanley, Jared C., Muller, Eric A., & Raschke, Markus B. Broadband infrared vibrational nano-spectroscopy using thermal blackbody radiation. United States. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.23.032063
O’Callahan, Brian T., Lewis, William E., Möbius, Silke, Stanley, Jared C., Muller, Eric A., and Raschke, Markus B. 2015.
"Broadband infrared vibrational nano-spectroscopy using thermal blackbody radiation". United States. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.23.032063. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1240131.
@article{osti_1240131,
title = {Broadband infrared vibrational nano-spectroscopy using thermal blackbody radiation},
author = {O’Callahan, Brian T. and Lewis, William E. and Möbius, Silke and Stanley, Jared C. and Muller, Eric A. and Raschke, Markus B.},
abstractNote = {Infrared vibrational nano-spectroscopy based on scattering scanning near-field optical microscopy (s-SNOM) provides intrinsic chemical specificity with nanometer spatial resolution. Here we use incoherent infrared radiation from a 1400 K thermal blackbody emitter for broadband infrared (IR) nano-spectroscopy.With optimized interferometric heterodyne signal amplification we achieve few-monolayer sensitivity in phonon polariton spectroscopy and attomolar molecular vibrational spectroscopy. Near-field localization and nanoscale spatial resolution is demonstrated in imaging flakes of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) and determination of its phonon polariton dispersion relation. The signal-to-noise ratio calculations and analysis for different samples and illumination sources provide a reference for irradiance requirements and the attainable near-field signal levels in s-SNOM in general. As a result, the use of a thermal emitter as an IR source thus opens s-SNOM for routine chemical FTIR nano-spectroscopy.},
doi = {10.1364/OE.23.032063},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1240131},
journal = {Optics Express},
issn = {1094-4087},
number = 25,
volume = 23,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Dec 03 00:00:00 EST 2015},
month = {Thu Dec 03 00:00:00 EST 2015}
}
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