Far-field background suppression in tip-modulated apertureless near-field optical microscopy (Articolo in rivista)

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  • Far-field background suppression in tip-modulated apertureless near-field optical microscopy (Articolo in rivista) (literal)
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  • 2006-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 (literal)
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  • Gucciardi, PG; Bachelier, G; Allegrini, M (2006)
    Far-field background suppression in tip-modulated apertureless near-field optical microscopy
    in Journal of applied physics
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  • Gucciardi, PG; Bachelier, G; Allegrini, M (literal)
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  • 124309 (literal)
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  • 99 (literal)
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  • ISI Web of Science (WOS) (literal)
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  • CNR, Ist Proc Chim Fis, Sezione Messina, I-98123 Messina, Italy Univ Lyon 1, CNRS, Spectrometrie Ion & Mol Lab, LASIM,UMR 5579, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France Univ Pisa, Dipartimento Fis E Fermi, I-56127 Pisa, Italy CNR, polyLAB, I-56127 Pisa, Italy (literal)
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  • Far-field background suppression in tip-modulated apertureless near-field optical microscopy (literal)
Abstract
  • In apertureless near-field optical microscopy the vertical dithering of the tip, associated with demodulation at higher harmonics (n > 1), allows us to suppress the far-field background, providing artifact free elastic scattering images. This paper analyzes, both theoretically and experimentally, the physical origin of the background signal at the different harmonics and the mechanisms underlying its rejection for the general case of propagative-field illumination. We show that Fourier components of the background must be expected at every harmonic, evidencing why demodulation at higher harmonics is not an inherently background-free technique, and assessing the experimental conditions in which it becomes like that. In particular, we put forward the fundamental roles of both the harmonic order and the tip oscillation amplitude in the background suppression mechanisms. Furthermore, we outline how the lock-in detection of the signals amplitude can enhance the nonlinear dependence of the background on the tip-sample distance. Such effect provides a more subtle source of topography artifacts since the optical maps become qualitatively uncorrelated from the topographic counterpart, requiring an upgrade of the criteria to assess the absence of artifacts from the optical maps. (literal)
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