Journal
NANO LETTERS
Volume 14, Issue 10, Pages 5598-5602Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/nl502080n
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Super-resolution; nanofocusing; near-field; plasmonics; microscopy
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- Ministry of Science and Technology of Israel
- Israeli Nanotechnology Focal Technology Area on Nanophotonics for Detection
- European Union's Seventh Framework Programme
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We present a direct measurement of short-wavelength plasmons focused into a sub-100 nm spot in homogeneous (translation invariant) 2D space. The short-wavelength (SW) surface plasmon polaritons (SPP) are achieved in metal-insulator-insulator (MII) platform consisting of silver, silicon nitride, and air. This platform is homogeneous in two spatial directions and supports SPP at wavelength more than two times shorter than that in free space yet interacts with the outer world through the evanescent tail in air. We use an apertureless (scattering) near-field scanning optical microscope (NSOM) to map directly the amplitude and phase of these SW-SPP and show they can be focused to under 70 nm without structurally assisted confinement such as nanoantennas or nanofocusing. This, along with the use of visible light at 532 nm which is suitable for optical microscopy, can open new directions in direct biological and medical imaging at the sub-100 nm resolution regime.
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