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  • Vol. 7, Iss. 6 — May. 25, 2012

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Role of in-plane polarizability of the tip in scattering near-field microscopy of a plasmonic nanoparticle

Deok-Soo Kim and Zee Hwan Kim  »View Author Affiliations


Optics Express, Vol. 20, Issue 8, pp. 8689-8699 (2012)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.20.008689


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Abstract

We report that a pyramid-shaped scanning probe microscopy tip has non-zero polarizability along the in-plane direction (perpendicular to the tip axis, z) at visible frequency. The in-plane polarizability enables the scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy (s-SNOM) to measure the in-plane field component around a plasmon-resonant nanoparticle. Because of the non-zero in-plane polarizability, the cross-polarized s-SNOM images may contain contributions from the in-plane field component of an out-of-plane plasmon mode as well as the out-of-plane field component of an in-plane mode. By comparing a scattering model and experimental s-SNOM images, we estimate the polarization anisotropies of pyramid-shaped Si-tips and metal-coated Si-tips.

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OCIS Codes
(240.6680) Optics at surfaces : Surface plasmons
(180.4243) Microscopy : Near-field microscopy

ToC Category:
Microscopy

History
Original Manuscript: February 8, 2012
Revised Manuscript: March 22, 2012
Manuscript Accepted: March 24, 2012
Published: March 29, 2012

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Vol. 7, Iss. 6 Virtual Journal for Biomedical Optics

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Deok-Soo Kim and Zee Hwan Kim, "Role of in-plane polarizability of the tip in scattering near-field microscopy of a plasmonic nanoparticle," Opt. Express 20, 8689-8699 (2012)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/vjbo/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-20-8-8689


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