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Title: Photon scanning tunneling microscopy

Abstract

The Photon Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (PSTM) is the photon analogue of the electron Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM). It uses the evanescent field due to the total internal reflection of a light beam in a Total Internal Reflection (TIR) prism. The sample, mounted on the base of the prism, modulates the evanescent field. A sharpened optical fiber probes this field, and the collected light is processed to generate an image of the topography and the chemical composition of the surface. We give, in this paper, a description of the microscope and discuss the influence of several parameters such as -- polarization of light, angle of incidence, shape of the end of the fiber -- on the resolution. Images of various samples -- glass samples, teflon spheres -- are presented. 8 refs., 7 figs.

Authors:
; ; ;  [1]; ;  [2]
  1. Dijon Univ., 21 (France). Lab. de Physique du Solide
  2. Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA)
Sponsoring Org.:
DOE/ER
OSTI Identifier:
6514683
Report Number(s):
CONF-9010216-1
ON: DE91001215
DOE Contract Number:  
AC05-84OR21400
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: APCOT 90: Asia Pacific conference on optical technology, Singapore (Singapore), 22-27 Oct 1990
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION; SCANNING LIGHT MICROSCOPY; OPERATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; OPTIMIZATION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; GLASS; IMAGES; INCIDENCE ANGLE; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTONS; POLARIZATION; PRISMS; TEFLON; TOPOGRAPHY; TUNNELING; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FIBERS; FLUORINATED ALIPHATIC HYDROCARBONS; HALOGENATED ALIPHATIC HYDROCARBONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MATERIALS; MICROSCOPY; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC FLUORINE COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC HALOGEN COMPOUNDS; PETROCHEMICALS; PETROLEUM PRODUCTS; PLASTICS; POLY; POLYETHYLENES; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; RESOLUTION; SYNTHETIC MATERIALS; 440800* - Miscellaneous Instrumentation- (1990-)

Citation Formats

Goudonnet, J P, Salomon, L, De Fornel, F, Chabrier, G, Warmack, R J, and Ferrell, T L. Photon scanning tunneling microscopy. United States: N. p., 1990. Web.
Goudonnet, J P, Salomon, L, De Fornel, F, Chabrier, G, Warmack, R J, & Ferrell, T L. Photon scanning tunneling microscopy. United States.
Goudonnet, J P, Salomon, L, De Fornel, F, Chabrier, G, Warmack, R J, and Ferrell, T L. 1990. "Photon scanning tunneling microscopy". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/6514683.
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author = {Goudonnet, J P and Salomon, L and De Fornel, F and Chabrier, G and Warmack, R J and Ferrell, T L},
abstractNote = {The Photon Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (PSTM) is the photon analogue of the electron Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM). It uses the evanescent field due to the total internal reflection of a light beam in a Total Internal Reflection (TIR) prism. The sample, mounted on the base of the prism, modulates the evanescent field. A sharpened optical fiber probes this field, and the collected light is processed to generate an image of the topography and the chemical composition of the surface. We give, in this paper, a description of the microscope and discuss the influence of several parameters such as -- polarization of light, angle of incidence, shape of the end of the fiber -- on the resolution. Images of various samples -- glass samples, teflon spheres -- are presented. 8 refs., 7 figs.},
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place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1990},
month = {Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1990}
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