USE OF SOLID ELECTROLYTIC EROSION FOR GENERATING NANO-APERTURE NEAR-FIELD COLLECTORS

Authors
MULIN D COURJON D MALUGANI JP GAUTHIERMANUEL B
Citation
D. Mulin et al., USE OF SOLID ELECTROLYTIC EROSION FOR GENERATING NANO-APERTURE NEAR-FIELD COLLECTORS, Applied physics letters, 71(4), 1997, pp. 437-439
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Applied
Journal title
Applied physics letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00036951
Volume
71
Issue
4
Year of publication
1997
Pages
437 - 439
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-6951(1997)71:4<437:UOSEEF>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
A new way in the fabrication of metallized nano-apertures for near-fie ld optical microscopy is proposed, The method is based on the electrol ysis between a silver metallized probe and an electrolytic glass. By d ry electrolytic erosion, the metal on the tip apex is removed and lead to a very small metal free aperture. This method applied here to tape red fibers, can be extended to any other metallized tip in a rather re producible way. (C) 1997 American Institute of Physics.