Photons and Local Probes / Edition 1

by Othmar Marti, Rolf Mïller

Overview

This volume contains papers presented at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) on Photons and Local Probes. The workshop had two predecessors. The first was the NATO ARW on Near Field Optics, held in October 1992 at Arc et Senans and was organized by Daniel Courjon and Dieter Pohl. The other predecessor was a workshop on Photons and Scanning Probe Microscopies held at the University of Konstanz in July 1992. The workshop on Photons and Local Probes was held at the Loechnerhaus on the Reichenau Island at the Lake of Constance, from September 11 to 17, 1994. The Reichenau Island was an important place in Europe in the middle age. Even the tomb of one of the carolingian emperors, Charles the Fat, is located there. At this workshop more than 60 scientists from Europe and the United States met to communicate their latest results in the field of local probes in combination with optical techniques. In eight sessions 31 talks as well as 9 posters were presented. Among those 31 publications were submitted for publication in the NATO proceedings. They were accepted after a strict, but constructive refereeing process.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780792337096
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	09/30/1995
Series:	NATO Science Series E: , #300
Edition description:	1995
Pages:	360
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.61(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

Near Field Optics Theory.- Theory of Near Field Optics.- Light Propagation in Scanning Near-Field Optical Microscopy.- A Theoretical Study of Near-Field Interactions with Local Probes.- A Direct Solution to the Inverse Scattering Problem in Near-Field Optical Microscopy: Object Structure Reconstruction.- Near Field Optics Instrumentation and Applications.- Near Field Instrumentation.- The Tetrahedral Tip as a Probe for Scanning Near-Field Optical and for Scanning Tunneling Microscopy.- “Tunnel” Near-Field Optical Microscopy: TNOM-2.- Optical Near-Field Imaging by Force Detection.- Scanning Near-Field Optical Microscopes for High Resolution Imaging.- Design of a Scanning Near Field Optical Microscope for Low Temperature Applications.- A Stand-Alone Scanning Near-Field Optical Microscope.- Reflection-Mode Snom.- Near Field Optical Spectroscopy.- Fluorescence Lifetime Variations and Local Spectroscopy in Scanning Near-Field Optical Microscopy.- Applications of Near Field Optical Microscopy: Fluorescence in situ hybridisation, Langmuir-Blodgett films andintegrated optical waveguides.- Near Field Optical Investigations on Nanometric Silver Particles.- Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Photons.- Photon Emission from STM: Concepts.- Scanning Probe Microscopies with Multiple Interactions.- Influence of Photoexcitation of Surface Electrons of Tunneling Dynamics in STM.- Linear and Nonlinear Spectroscopy with the Tunable AC Scanning Tunneling Microscope.- Plasmon-Induced Tunneling Currents: The Influence of Tip Modes.- Images of Surface Plasmons at 1064 nm obtained with an STM.- A New Mechanism for Laser-Frequency Mixing in a Scanning Tunneling Microscope.- Laser-Assisted Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Studies of Thin Ordered Molecular Layers.- Photosensitive SemiconductorTips in a Scanning Tunneling Microscope.- Photoinduced Currents in Normal and Super-Conducting Micro-Junctions.- Related Techniques.- Ultrashort Time Optics: An Overview.- Use of Radiation Pressure on Microcantilevers to Measure the Optical Functions of Solids.- Detection of a single electron spin.- Patterning of Liquid Crystal Waveguides with the Scanning Force Microscope.- Lithography and Reactive Ion Etching in Microfabrication.- Investigation of Surfaces with Miniaturized Thermal Probes.- List of Presentations.- Author Index.

Editorial Reviews

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop held in Reichenau, Germany, September 1994, to communicate the latest results in the field of local probes in combination with optical techniques. The subjects discussed include near field optics theory; near field optics instrumentation and applications; near field optical spectroscopy; scanning tunneling microscopy and photons; and related techniques. Among the specific topics are light propagation in scanning near-field optical microscopy; optical near-field imaging by force protection; near field optical investigations on nanometric silver particles; and photoinduced currents in normal and super-conducting micro-junctions. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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