Nature Communications (May 2021)

Probing subwavelength in-plane anisotropy with antenna-assisted infrared nano-spectroscopy

  • Ziheng Yao,
  • Xinzhong Chen,
  • Lukas Wehmeier,
  • Suheng Xu,
  • Yinming Shao,
  • Zimeng Zeng,
  • Fanwei Liu,
  • Alexander S. Mcleod,
  • Stephanie N. Gilbert Corder,
  • Makoto Tsuneto,
  • Wu Shi,
  • Zihang Wang,
  • Wenjun Zheng,
  • Hans A. Bechtel,
  • G. L. Carr,
  • Michael C. Martin,
  • Alex Zettl,
  • D. N. Basov,
  • Xi Chen,
  • Lukas M. Eng,
  • Susanne C. Kehr,
  • Mengkun Liu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22844-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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s-SNOM is a powerful tool, but it is less sensitive to in-plane variations. Here the authors present a method to improve this with a metallic microdisk antenna, which they demonstrate by probing in-plane phonon responses.