Nano-optical imaging and spectroscopy of order, phases, and domains in complex solids

Nanoscale characterization of emergent phenomena in multiferroics

(2012) Q. He et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN SOLID STATE & MATERIALS SCIENCE

Pushing the Sample-Size Limit of Infrared Vibrational Nanospectroscopy: From Monolayer toward Single Molecule Sensitivity

(2012) Xiaoji G. Xu et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Nano-plasmonic antennas in the near infrared regime

(2012) N Berkovitch et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER

Tailoring Spatiotemporal Light Confinement in Single Plasmonic Nanoantennas

(2012) Tobias Hanke et al.   NANO LETTERS

Strain and temperature dependence of the insulating phases of VO2near the metal-insulator transition

(2012) Joanna M. Atkin et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Near-field spectroscopy of silicon dioxide thin films

(2012) L. M. Zhang et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Engineering metallic nanostructures for plasmonics and nanophotonics

(2012) Nathan C Lindquist et al.   REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS

Nanoantennas for visible and infrared radiation

(2012) Paolo Biagioni et al.   REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS

Nanoscale Chemical Imaging of Single-Layer Graphene

(2011) Johannes Stadler et al.   ACS Nano

Nanoscale Infrared Absorption Spectroscopy of Individual Nanoparticles Enabled by Scattering-Type Near-Field Microscopy

(2011) Johannes M. Stiegler et al.   ACS Nano

Optical Imaging of CdSe Nanowires with Nanoscale Resolution

(2011) Miriam Böhmler et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Strain Distribution Analysis of Sputter-Formed Strained Si by Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

(2011) Hiroaki Hanafusa et al.   Applied Physics Express

Piezoresponse force microscopy of domains and walls in multiferroic HoMnO3

(2011) Edward B. Lochocki et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Low temperature near-field scanning optical microscopy on infrared and terahertz photonic-crystal quantum cascade lasers

(2011) I. C. Moldovan-Doyen et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Tip-enhanced Raman mapping of a single Ge nanowire

(2011) Y. Ogawa et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Nanometer-resolution optical probe using a metallic-nanoparticle-intercalated carbon nanotube

(2011) Toshihiko Nakata et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Comparative Study of Far-Field and Near-Field Raman Spectra from Silicon-Based Samples and Biological Nanostructures

(2011) Peter Hermann et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Single-Molecule Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

(2011) Matthew D. Sonntag et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Two-Color Ultrafast Photoexcited Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

(2011) A. Dolocan et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Characterization of the second-harmonic response of second-order nonlinear probes

(2011) Haifeng Li et al.   JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA B-OPTICAL PHYSICS

Theory of optical second-harmonic and sum-frequency scattering from arbitrarily shaped particles

(2011) Alex G. F. de Beer et al.   JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA B-OPTICAL PHYSICS

A matter of scale: from far-field microscopy to near-field nanoscopy

(2011) D.A. Schmidt et al.   Laser & Photonics Reviews

Tip-Enhanced Raman Scattering (TERS) from Hemozoin Crystals within a Sectioned Erythrocyte

(2011) Bayden R. Wood et al.   NANO LETTERS

Hyperspectral Nanoscale Imaging on Dielectric Substrates with Coaxial Optical Antenna Scan Probes.

(2011) Alexander Weber-Bargioni et al.   NANO LETTERS

Femtosecond Nanofocusing with Full Optical Waveform Control

(2011) Samuel Berweger et al.   NANO LETTERS

Infrared Nanoscopy of Dirac Plasmons at the Graphene–SiO2Interface

(2011) Zhe Fei et al.   NANO LETTERS

Graphene Plasmonics: A Platform for Strong Light–Matter Interactions

(2011) Frank H. L. Koppens et al.   NANO LETTERS

Observation of Multiple Vibrational Modes in Ultrahigh Vacuum Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Combined with Molecular-Resolution Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

(2011) N. Jiang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Collapse of long-range charge order tracked by time-resolved photoemission at high momenta

(2011) Timm Rohwer et al.   NATURE

Nodal quasiparticle meltdown in ultrahigh-resolution pump–probe angle-resolved photoemission

(2011) J. Graf et al.   Nature Physics

Nonlinear phononics as an ultrafast route to lattice control

(2011) M. Först et al.   Nature Physics

Second-harmonic generation from coupled plasmon modes in a single dimer of gold nanospheres

(2011) A. Slablab et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Index assignment of a carbon nanotube rope using tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy

(2011) Karin Goß et al.   PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI B-BASIC SOLID STATE PHYSICS

Dynamics of a first-order electronic phase transition in manganites

(2011) T. Z. Ward et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Large kinetic asymmetry in the metal-insulator transition nucleated at localized and extended defects

(2011) W. Fan et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Optical near-field interference in the excitation of a bowtie nanoantenna

(2011) P. Melchior et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Nanoscale imaging of the electronic and structural transitions in vanadium dioxide

(2011) M. M. Qazilbash et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Photoinduced Melting of Antiferromagnetic Order inLa0.5Sr1.5MnO4Measured Using Ultrafast Resonant Soft X-Ray Diffraction

(2011) H. Ehrke et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Cryogenic microwave imaging of metal–insulator transition in doped silicon

(2011) Worasom Kundhikanjana et al.   REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS

Electrodynamics of correlated electron materials

(2011) D. N. Basov et al.   REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS

Imaging and strain analysis of nano-scale SiGe structures by tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy

(2011) Peter Hermann et al.   ULTRAMICROSCOPY

Magnetoelectric Coupling Effects in Multiferroic Complex Oxide Composite Structures

(2010) Carlos A. F. Vaz et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Ultrafast dynamics of antiferromagnetic order studied by femtosecond resonant soft x-ray diffraction

(2010) K. Holldack et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Electrostatic topology of ferroelectric domains in YMnO3

(2010) Tobias Jungk et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopic imaging of localized defects in carbon nanotubes

(2010) Carsten Georgi et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Combined Apertureless Near-Field Optical Second-Harmonic Generation/Atomic Force Microscopy Imaging and Nanoscale Limit of Detection

(2010) Kent A. Meyer et al.   APPLIED SPECTROSCOPY

Studying Surface Chemistry beyond the Diffraction Limit: 10 Years of TERS

(2010) Katrin F. Domke et al.   CHEMPHYSCHEM

Adiabatic Tip-Plasmon Focusing for Nano-Raman Spectroscopy

(2010) Samuel Berweger et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Time-resolved imaging using x-ray free electron lasers

(2010) Anton Barty   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS B-ATOMIC MOLECULAR AND OPTICAL PHYSICS

Development of functional nanoprobes for optical near-field characterization

(2010) Y Jia et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER

Strain effects in low-dimensional transition metal oxides

(2010) Jinbo Cao et al.   MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING R-REPORTS

Nonlinear Dark-Field Microscopy

(2010) Hayk Harutyunyan et al.   NANO LETTERS

4D Lorentz Electron Microscopy Imaging: Magnetic Domain Wall Nucleation, Reversal, and Wave Velocity

(2010) Hyun Soon Park et al.   NANO LETTERS

Nano-optical Investigations of the Metal−Insulator Phase Behavior of Individual VO2Microcrystals

(2010) Andrew C. Jones et al.   NANO LETTERS

Near-Field Localization in Plasmonic Superfocusing: A Nanoemitter on a Tip

(2010) Catalin C. Neacsu et al.   NANO LETTERS

Nanoscale Chemical Imaging Using Top-Illumination Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

(2010) J. Stadler et al.   NANO LETTERS

Few-Femtosecond Plasmon Dephasing of a Single Metallic Nanostructure from Optical Response Function Reconstruction by Interferometric Frequency Resolved Optical Gating

(2010) Alexandria Anderson et al.   NANO LETTERS

Ultrathin Topological Insulator Bi2Se3Nanoribbons Exfoliated by Atomic Force Microscopy

(2010) Seung Sae Hong et al.   NANO LETTERS

Three-Dimensional Plasmonic Nanofocusing

(2010) Nathan C. Lindquist et al.   NANO LETTERS

Perspectives on Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene Raman Spectroscopy

(2010) Mildred S. Dresselhaus et al.   NANO LETTERS

A strong ferroelectric ferromagnet created by means of spin–lattice coupling

(2010) June Hyuk Lee et al.   NATURE

The birth of topological insulators

(2010) Joel E. Moore   NATURE

Real-space imaging of transient carrier dynamics by nanoscale pump–probe microscopy

(2010) Yasuhiko Terada et al.   Nature Photonics

Graphene photonics and optoelectronics

(2010) F. Bonaccorso et al.   Nature Photonics

The attosecond nonlinear optics of bright coherent X-ray generation

(2010) Tenio Popmintchev et al.   Nature Photonics

Getting a clearer picture

(2010)   Nature Photonics

Full vectorial imaging of electromagnetic light at subwavelength scale

(2010) T. Grosjean et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Two-photon-induced hot-electron transfer to a single molecule in a scanning tunneling microscope

(2010) S. W. Wu et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Structural phase transition and superlattice misfit strain ofRFeAsO(R=La, Pr, Nd, Sm)

(2010) A. Ricci et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Constant threshold resistivity in the metal-insulator transition ofVO2

(2010) J. Cao et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Oscillatory crossover from two-dimensional to three-dimensional topological insulators

(2010) Chao-Xing Liu et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Free-Space Excitation of Propagating Surface Plasmon Polaritons by Nonlinear Four-Wave Mixing

(2010) Jan Renger et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Nanoscale Spectroscopic Imaging of Organic Semiconductor Films by Plasmon-Polariton Coupling

(2010) D. Zhang et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Determination of Electric-Field, Magnetic-Field, and Electric-Current Distributions of Infrared Optical Antennas: A Near-Field Optical Vector Network Analyzer

(2010) Robert L. Olmon et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

All-Optical Control of the Ultrafast Dynamics of a Hybrid Plasmonic System

(2010) Tobias Utikal et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Bright, Coherent, Ultrafast Soft X-Ray Harmonics Spanning the Water Window from a Tabletop Light Source

(2010) M.-C. Chen et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Self-organization, condensation, and annihilation of topological vortices and antivortices in a multiferroic

(2010) S. C. Chae et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Spatiotemporal control of nanooptical excitations

(2010) M. Aeschlimann et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Optical excitations in electron microscopy

(2010) F. J. García de Abajo   REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS

Mesoscopic Percolating Resistance Network in a Strained Manganite Thin Film

(2010) K. Lai et al.   SCIENCE

The ultimate “analytical challenge”: what is analytical chemistry?

(2009) Juris Meija   ANALYTICAL AND BIOANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Signal limitations in tip-enhanced Raman scattering: the challenge to become a routine analytical technique

(2009) Samuel Berweger et al.   ANALYTICAL AND BIOANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy for nanoscale strain characterization

(2009) Alvarado Tarun et al.   ANALYTICAL AND BIOANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Tip-enhanced Raman Spectroscopy – Its status, challenges and future directions

(2009) Boon-Siang Yeo et al.   CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS

Novel methodology for estimating the enhancement factor for tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy

(2009) Debdulal Roy et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Time- and energy resolved photoemission electron microscopy-imaging of photoelectron time-of-flight analysis by means of pulsed excitations

(2009) Andreas Oelsner et al.   JOURNAL OF ELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY AND RELATED PHENOMENA

Optical Properties of Metal Tips for Tip-Enhanced Spectroscopies†

(2009) Maxim Sukharev et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A

Highly Stable, Protected Plasmonic Nanostructures for Tip Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

(2009) Carlos A. Barrios et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy of 6H-SiC with graphene adlayers: selective suppression of E1 modes

(2009) Katrin F. Domke et al.   JOURNAL OF RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY

Nano-scale analysis of graphene layers by tip-enhanced near-field Raman spectroscopy

(2009) Yuika Saito et al.   JOURNAL OF RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY

Performing tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy in liquids

(2009) Thomas Schmid et al.   JOURNAL OF RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY

Polar phonon mode selection rules in tip-enhanced Raman scattering

(2009) Samuel Berweger et al.   JOURNAL OF RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY

Zeptomol Detection Through Controlled Ultrasensitive Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering

(2009) Laura Rodríguez-Lorenzo et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Nanoscale Electronic Inhomogeneity in In2Se3Nanoribbons Revealed by Microwave Impedance Microscopy

(2009) Keji Lai et al.   NANO LETTERS

Near-Field Imaging with a Localized Nonlinear Light Source

(2009) Stefano Palomba et al.   NANO LETTERS

Hierarchy of Electronic Properties of Chemically Derived and Pristine Graphene Probed by Microwave Imaging

(2009) Worasom Kundhikanjana et al.   NANO LETTERS

Composite domain walls in a multiferroic perovskite ferrite

(2009) Yusuke Tokunaga et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Optical nanocrystallography with tip-enhanced phonon Raman spectroscopy

(2009) Samuel Berweger et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

New aspects of the metal–insulator transition in single-domain vanadium dioxide nanobeams

(2009) Jiang Wei et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Nanoscale chemical mapping using three-dimensional adiabatic compression of surface plasmon polaritons

(2009) Francesco De Angelis et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Pressure-assisted tip-enhanced Raman imaging at a resolution of a few nanometres

(2009) Taka-aki Yano et al.   Nature Photonics

STED microscopy reveals crystal colour centres with nanometric resolution

(2009) Eva Rittweger et al.   Nature Photonics

Origin of spatial charge inhomogeneity in graphene

(2009) Yuanbo Zhang et al.   Nature Physics

Observation of a large-gap topological-insulator class with a single Dirac cone on the surface

(2009) Y. Xia et al.   Nature Physics

Tabletop soft-x-ray Fourier transform holography with 50 nm resolution

(2009) R. L. Sandberg et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Non-d0Mn-driven ferroelectricity in antiferromagneticBaMnO3

(2009) James M. Rondinelli et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Second-harmonic near-field imaging of ferroelectric domain structure ofYMnO3

(2009) Catalin C. Neacsu et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Infrared spectroscopy and nano-imaging of the insulator-to-metal transition in vanadium dioxide

(2009) M. M. Qazilbash et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Ultrafast Coupling between Light, Coherent Lattice Vibrations, and the Magnetic Structure of SemicovalentLaMnO3

(2009) S. Wall et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Direct Imaging of Nanoscale Phase Separation inLa0.55Ca0.45MnO3: Relationship to Colossal Magnetoresistance

(2009) J. Tao et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Subnanometric Near-Field Raman Investigation in the Vicinity of a Metallic Nanostructure

(2009) Taro Ichimura et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Nanowire Plasmon Excitation by Adiabatic Mode Transformation

(2009) Ewold Verhagen et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Efficient Nonlinear Light Emission of Single Gold Optical Antennas Driven by Few-Cycle Near-Infrared Pulses

(2009) T. Hanke et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Raman spectroscopy in graphene

(2009) L.M. Malard et al.   PHYSICS REPORTS-REVIEW SECTION OF PHYSICS LETTERS

Near-field optical imaging of enhanced electric fields and plasmon waves in metal nanostructures

(2009) Hiromi Okamoto et al.   PROGRESS IN SURFACE SCIENCE

Etching gold tips suitable for tip-enhanced near-field optical microscopy

(2009) Lior Eligal et al.   REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS

Attosecond physics

(2009) Ferenc Krausz et al.   REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS

The electronic properties of graphene

(2009) A. H. Castro Neto et al.   REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS

Ultrasmooth Patterned Metals for Plasmonics and Metamaterials

(2009) P. Nagpal et al.   SCIENCE

Switchable Ferroelectric Diode and Photovoltaic Effect in BiFeO3

(2009) T. Choi et al.   SCIENCE

Experimental Realization of a Three-Dimensional Topological Insulator, Bi2Te3

(2009) Y. L. Chen et al.   SCIENCE

Nanoscale Probing of a Polymer-Blend Thin Film with Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

(2009) Boon-Siang Yeo et al.   Small

Optical Antennas

(2009) Palash Bharadwaj et al.   Advances in Optics and Photonics

Towards chemical analysis of nanostructures in biofilms II: tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy of alginates

(2008) Thomas Schmid et al.   ANALYTICAL AND BIOANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy of Single RNA Strands: Towards a Novel Direct-Sequencing Method

(2008) Elena Bailo et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Tip-Enhanced Near-Field Optical Microscopy

(2008) Achim Hartschuh   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Electrostatic modification of infrared response in gated structures based on VO2

(2008) M. M. Qazilbash et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Polarization-dependent confocal Raman microscopy of an individual ZnO nanorod

(2008) Chih-Tao Chien et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Coherent Two-Dimensional Optical Spectroscopy

(2008) Minhaeng Cho   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Tip-enhanced Raman scattering

(2008) Elena Bailo et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

SERS—a single-molecule and nanoscale tool for bioanalytics

(2008) Janina Kneipp et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Depolarization effect in reflection-mode tip-enhanced Raman scattering for Raman active crystals

(2008) Masashi Motohashi et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Optical Antenna Properties of Scanning Probe Tips:  Plasmonic Light Scattering, Tip−Sample Coupling, and Near-Field Enhancement

(2008) Nicolas Behr et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Experimental Verification of the SERS Electromagnetic Model beyond the |E|4 Approximation: Polarization Effects

(2008) E. C. Le Ru et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Orientation-Dependent Raman Spectroscopy of Single Wurtzite CdS Nanowires

(2008) H. M. Fan et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Raman to the limit: tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopic investigations of a single tobacco mosaic virus

(2008) Dana Cialla et al.   JOURNAL OF RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY

Probing the Structure of Single-Molecule Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Hot Spots

(2008) Jon P. Camden et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Crystal Structure and the Paraelectric-to-Ferroelectric Phase Transition of Nanoscale BaTiO3

(2008) Millicent B. Smith et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Cuprate high-Tc superconductors

(2008) Kyle M. Shen et al.   Materials Today

Light depolarization induced by metallic tips in apertureless near-field optical microscopy and tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy

(2008) P G Gucciardi et al.   NANOTECHNOLOGY

A topological Dirac insulator in a quantum spin Hall phase

(2008) D. Hsieh et al.   NATURE

Polarization-selective mapping of near-field intensity and phase around gold nanoparticles using apertureless near-field microscopy

(2008) Zee Hwan Kim et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Near-field amplitude and phase recovery using phase-shifting interferometry

(2008) B. Deutsch et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Tighter focusing with a parabolic mirror

(2008) J. Stadler et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Optical second-harmonic scattering from cylindrical particles

(2008) Jerry Icban Dadap   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy and Microscopy on Single Dye Molecules with 15 nm Resolution

(2008) Jens Steidtner et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Ultrafast Electronic Phase Transition inLa1/2Sr3/2MnO4by Coherent Vibrational Excitation: Evidence for Nonthermal Melting of Orbital Order

(2008) R. I. Tobey et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Measurement of the Distribution of Site Enhancements in Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering

(2008) Y. Fang et al.   SCIENCE

High-Resolution Scanning X-ray Diffraction Microscopy

(2008) P. Thibault et al.   SCIENCE

Electronic phase separation and other novel phenomena and properties exhibited by mixed-valent rare-earth manganites and related materials

(2007) V. B Shenoy et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES