2006/07/22 by Aurélien Drezet, A. Drezet, A. Hohenau +5 · 1 citation
Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications #Materials science #Microscopy #Nanophotonics #Nanotechnology #Near and far field #Near-Field Optical Microscopy #Near-field optics #Near-field scanning optical microscope #Optical microscope #Optics #Optoelectronics #Physics #Plasmon #Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research #Scanning electron microscope #Scanning tunneling microscope #Surface plasmon #Surface plasmon polariton #cond-mat.other #physics.optics
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.micron.2006.06.011
published as Micron 38, 427 (2007)
openalex publication_date 2006/07/22 · arxiv created 2007/11/16 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We present an overview of recent progress in plasmonics. We focus our study on the observation and excitation of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) with optical near-field microscopy. We discuss in particular recent applications of photon scanning tunnelling microscope (PSTM) for imaging of SPP propagating in metal and dielectric wave guides. We show how near-field scanning optical microscopy (NSOM) can be used to optically and actively address remotely nano-objects such as quantum dots. Additionally we compare results obtained with near-field microscopy to those obtained with other optical far-field methods of analysis such as leakage radiation microscopy (LRM).