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Small oscillation amplitudes in dynamic atomic force microscopy can lead to invasive and high resolution imaging. Here we discuss small oscillation amplitude imaging in the context of ambient conditions and simultaneously excite the second…
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Optical resolution photoacoustic microscopy (OR-PAM) leverages optical focusing and acoustic detection for microscopic optical absorption imaging. Intrinsically it owns high optical lateral resolution and poor acoustic axial resolution.…
Conventional dynamic atomic force microscopy (AFM) can be extended to bimodal and multimodal AFM in which the cantilever is simultaneously excited at two ore more resonance frequencies. Such excitation schemes result in one additional…
Atomic Force Microscopy - Infrared (AFM-IR) has emerged as a useful technique for measuring absorption spectra with spatial resolution better than the optical diffraction limit. The technique relies on the movement of a probe for atomic…
It is generally thought that capillary interactions in nanoscale contacts give rise to unwanted behaviour due to high adhesion. We show that this is not the case for sufficiently small contacts in ambient conditions. High resolution ambient…
Highest resolution laser spectroscopy has generally been limited to single trapped ion systems due to rapid decoherence which plagues neutral atom ensembles. Here, precision spectroscopy of ultracold neutral atoms confined in a trapping…
In optical coherence tomography (OCT), axial resolution and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) are typically viewed as uncoupled parameters. We show that this is only true for mirror-like surfaces, and that in diffuse scattering samples such as…
Scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy (s-SNOM) allows for the observation of the optical response of material surfaces with a resolution far below the diffraction limit. Based on amplitude-modulation atomic force microscopy…
With recent advances in scanning probe microscopy (SPM), it is now routine to determine the atomic structure of surfaces and molecules while quantifying the local tip-sample interaction potentials. Such quantitative experiments are based on…
Power Doppler ultrasound is in widespread clinical use for non-invasive vascular imaging but the most common current method - Delay and Sum (DAS) beamforming - suffers from limited resolution and high side-lobes. Here we propose the…
Scattering scanning near-field optical microscopy (s-SNOM) is a technique to enhance the spatial resolution, and when combined by Fourier transform spectroscopy it can provide spectroscopic information with high spatial resolution. This…
The effect of noise on the Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar (ISAR) with sparse apertures is a challenging issue for image reconstruction with high resolution at low Signal-to-Noise Ratios (SNRs). It is well-known that the image resolution…
In spectroscopic analysis, the peak-based signal-to-noise ratio (pSNR) is commonly used but suffers from limitations such as sensitivity to noise spikes and reduced effectiveness for broader peaks. We introduce the area-based…
We demonstrate Optical-Resolution Photoacoustic Microscopy (OR-PAM), where the optical field is focused and scanned using Digital Phase Conjugation (DPC) through a multimode fiber. The focus is scanned across the field of view using digital…
We present a novel method that allows for measuring the quality of diffusion-weighted MR images dependent on the image resolution and the image noise. For this purpose, we introduce a new thresholding technique so that noise and the signal…
Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) is critical in nanotechnology, materials science, and biological imaging due to its high spatial resolution and depth of focus. Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is an essential parameter in SEM because it…
We investigate the modification of photoluminescence (PL) from single semiconductor nanocrystal quantum dots (NCs) in proximity of metal and semiconducting Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) tips. The presence of the tip alters the radiative…
This paper investigates the performance of the adaptive matched filtering (AMF) in cluttered environments, particularly when operating with superimposed signals. Since the instantaneous signal-to-clutter-plus-noise ratio (SCNR) is a random…