Nature Communications (May 2018)

Tomographic and multimodal scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy with peak force tapping mode

  • Haomin Wang,
  • Le Wang,
  • Devon S. Jakob,
  • Xiaoji G. Xu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04403-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Scanning near-field optical microscopy (SNOM) offers nanometer-scale spatial resolution, but generally does not retain tomographic information. Here, Wang et al. develop peak-force SNOM to section scattered fields and improve imaging resolution.