Optical microscopy, the simultaneous acquisition of spectroscopic and spatial information
using light, forms the basis of many natural sciences. In this chapter, we review a novel …

Tip-enhanced near-field optical microscopy (TENOM) is a scanning probe technique
capable of providing a broad range of spectroscopic information on single objects and …

Optical antennas are an emerging concept in physical optics. Similar to radiowave and
microwave antennas, their purpose is to convert the energy of free propagating radiation to …

Surface plasmon polaritons are a central concept in nanoplasmonics and have been
exploited to develop ultrasensitive chemical detection platforms, as well as imaging and …

With a template-stripping fabrication technique, we demonstrate the mass fabrication of high-
quality, uniform, ultrasharp (10 nm) metallic probes suitable for single-molecule …

Efficient, broadband illumination and collection through a nanometre-sized hotspot carried
by a scanning probe will endow light–matter interaction research with nanoscale spatial …

The present review on light emission stimulated by electrons tunneling inelastically through
a junction formed by a sample and a tip of a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) focusses …

Using rigorous numerical methods of analysis, this paper investigates nonadiabatic
nanofocusing in tapered nanorods with the major emphasis on structural optimization for …

A theory of the coupling of evanescent optical fields between metallic nanoparticles is
developed to provide a basis for designing plasmonic systems. The interaction between …

We provide a simple analytical model for the modification of optical properties of active
molecules and other objects when they are placed in the vicinity of metal nanoparticles of …