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Photonic–plasmonic devices

A 7-nm light pen makes its mark

Nature Nanotechnology volume 5, pages 10–11 (2010)Cite this article

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An optical probe has been developed for the chemical mapping of materials at the nanoscale by combining plasmonics, Raman spectroscopy and atomic force microscopy.

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Figure 1: The 'light pen' created by Di Fabrizio and co-workers consists of a sharp silver tip on a thin semiconductor membrane that contains an array of nanoscale holes.

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  1. Nikolay I. Zheludev is with the Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK. niz@orc.soton.ac.uk,

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Zheludev, N. A 7-nm light pen makes its mark. Nature Nanotech 5, 10–11 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2009.460

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