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Tip Enhancement (Advances in Nano-Optics and Nano-Photonics)

Elsevier Science | 2007-02-20 | ISBN: 0444520589 | Pages: 338 | PDF | 6.12 MB
This book discusses the recent advances in the area of near-field Raman scattering, mainly focusing on tip-enhanced and surface-enhanced Raman scattering. Some of the key features covered here are the optical structuring and manipulations, single molecule sensitivity, analysis of single-walled carbon nanotubes, and analytic applications in chemistry, biology and material sciences. This book also discusses the plasmonic materials for better enhancement, and optical antennas. Further, near-field microscopy based on second harmonic generation is also discussed. Chapters have been written by some of the leading scientists in this field, who present some of their recent work in this field.
Tip enhancement effect, which was first proposed in 1999, made a
great breakthrough in Raman spectroscopic analysis. Within just a few
years, it has been significantly used, in particular, for nano-imaging and
nano-analysis, not only because of its high factor of enhancement, but
also because of the high-resolution capability down to 10 nm due to the
localization of the field/hot spot of the resonant plasmon polaritons in a
structured nano-metal. |