Ebook: Non-optically probing near-field microscopy with illumination of total internal reflection
Author: H Kitano Affiliation: Faculty of Engineering Shizuoka University Johoku Hamamatsu 432-8561 Japan., M Murakami Affiliation: Faculty of Engineering Shizuoka University Johoku Hamamatsu 432-8561 Japan., Y Kawata Affiliation: Faculty of Engineering Shizuoka University Johoku Hamamatsu 432-8561 Japan., C Egami Affiliation: Faculty of Engineering Shizuoka University Johoku Hamamatsu 432-8561 Japan., O Sugihara Affiliation: Faculty of Engineering Shizuoka University Johoku Hamamatsu 432-8561 Japan., All authors
- Year: 2001
- Language: English
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We have developed a non-optically probing near-field microscope with illumination of total internal reflection. Because the illumination light does not pass through the specimens, it is possible to observe thick specimens or highly absorptive materials. It reduces the background noise because the decay length of the evanescent wave is a few hundred nanometres. We found that although in the total internal reflection Read more...
Abstract: We have developed a non-optically probing near-field microscope with illumination of total internal reflection. Because the illumination light does not pass through the specimens, it is possible to observe thick specimens or highly absorptive materials. It reduces the background noise because the decay length of the evanescent wave is a few hundred nanometres. We found that although in the total internal reflection illumination system the light passed through the photosensitive film and illuminated the specimen, it did not affect the photosensitive film severely and did not limit the resolution. The imaging properties of reflection illumination and transmission illumination are analysed using a finite-differential time domain method