SCANNING COMBINED NEAR-FIELD OPTICAL TUNNELING MICROSCOPE

Authors
VOLGUNOV DG GAPONOV SV DRYAKHLUSHIN VF KLIMOV AY LUKYANOV AY MIRONOV VL PANFILOV AI PETRUKHIN AA REVIN DG ROGOV VV
Citation
Dg. Volgunov et al., SCANNING COMBINED NEAR-FIELD OPTICAL TUNNELING MICROSCOPE, Instruments and experimental techniques, 41(2), 1998, pp. 269-274
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Instument & Instrumentation",Engineering
Journal title
Instruments and experimental techniques → ACNP
ISSN journal
00204412
Volume
41
Issue
2
Year of publication
1998
Pages
269 - 274
Database
ISI
SICI code
0020-4412(1998)41:2<269:SCNOTM>2.0.ZU;2-G
Abstract
A scanning near-field optical microscope combined with a scanning tunn eling microscope is designed for studying sample surfaces and modifyin g their properties. A single-mode optical fiber adiabatically narrowed to an aperture of 30-100 nm and coated with a metal layer is used as a microprobe. The microscope probe, kept above the sample surface, is controlled by a tunnel-current-based feedback loop, allowing optical a nd electron images to be obtained simultaneously.