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Sub-wavelength surface IR imaging of soft-condensed matter

Biological Physics 2015-05-20 v1 Soft Condensed Matter Instrumentation and Detectors

Abstract

Outlined here is a technique for sub-wavelength infrared surface imaging performed using a phase matched optical parametric oscillator laser and an atomic force microscope as the detection mechanism. The technique uses a novel surface excitation illumination approach to perform simultaneously chemical mapping and AFM topography imaging with an image resolution of 200 nm. This method was demonstrated by imaging polystyrene micro-structures.

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@article{arxiv.1010.5929,
  title  = {Sub-wavelength surface IR imaging of soft-condensed matter},
  author = {James H. Rice and Graeme A. Hill and Stephen R. Meech and Paulina Kuo and Konstantin Vodopyanov and Michael Reading},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1010.5929},
  year   = {2015}
}