A novel tip-surface distance control for low temperature scanning near-field photoluminescence spectroscopy

Author

Crottini, A. ; Staehli ; Deveaud, B. ; Wang, Xia L. ; Ogura, M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technol., Lausanne, Switzerland

fYear

2000

fDate

10-15 Sept. 2000

Abstract

Summary form only given. Quartz tuning forks, driven to electromechanical resonance by piezo elements, are widely used as distance sensing elements in scanning near-field optical microscopy (SNOM). Distance controls, based on tuning forks without piezo elements, have been successfully employed in atomic force microscopes. We extended this technique to the case of low temperature SNOM. In our experimental set-up, the fibre is fixed at two points.

Keywords

low-temperature techniques; near-field scanning optical microscopy; photoluminescence; spectroscopy; SNOM; atomic force microscopes; distance control; distance sensing elements; low temperature SNOM; low temperature scanning near-field photoluminescence spectroscopy; piezo elements; quartz tuning forks; scanning near-field optical microscopy; tip-surface distance control; Atom optics; Atomic force microscopy; Optical microscopy; Optical tuning; Photoluminescence; Resonance; Spectroscopy; Temperature control; Temperature sensors; Vibrations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Quantum Electronics Conference, 2000. Conference Digest. 2000 International

Conference_Location

Nice, France

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6318-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IQEC.2000.908121

Filename

908121