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Vibrational Imaging At The Nanoscale: Surpassing The Diffraction Limit Using Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy, Farshid Pashaee
Vibrational Imaging At The Nanoscale: Surpassing The Diffraction Limit Using Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy, Farshid Pashaee
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A deep understanding of the chemical composition of surfaces, interfaces or nanoscale structure with a high spatial resolution is an important goal in nanoscience and nanotechnology. Structural information can be collected using a variety of high spatial resolution techniques such as atomic force microscopy (AFM), scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), or transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Nevertheless, these methods do not offer molecular information such as vibrational spectroscopy techniques that allow one to collect molecular or lattice vibrations yielding to a precise picture of the molecular interactions in bulk materials as well as in surfaces and interfaces. Unfortunately …
Tip-Enhances Raman Spectroscopy, Enabling Spectroscopy At The Nanoscale, Nastaran Kazemi Zanjani
Tip-Enhances Raman Spectroscopy, Enabling Spectroscopy At The Nanoscale, Nastaran Kazemi Zanjani
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The knowledge on the chemical and the structural properties of substances benefits strongly from characterization methods that can provide access to the sample’s nanoscale building blocks. Not only should the sensitivity of these methods approach a high detection limit up to single molecule, but also the accessible spatial resolution must enable chemical imaging of individual nanoscale features of the substances. High resolution imaging is often provided by electron microscopes through methods such as transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and scanning electron microscopy (STM), nevertheless, these methods lack offering chemical information. Surface-enhanced spectroscopy was developed to improve the sensitivity of the chemical …