The use of imaging technologies has been critical in deciphering biological phenomena,
structures, and mechanisms across a wide range of spatial scales. The spatial resolution of …

Methods for chemical analysis at the nanometer scale are crucial for understanding and
characterizing nanostructures of modern materials and biological systems. Tip‐enhanced …

Super-resolution optical microscopy, which gives access to finer details of objects, is highly
desired for fields of nanomaterial, nanobiology, nanophotonics, etc. Many efforts, including …

The structure of our material world is characterized by a large hierarchy of length scales that
determines material properties and functions. Increasing spatial resolution in optical imaging …

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 …

This review provides a detailed overview of the state of the art in tip-enhanced Raman
spectroscopy (TERS) and focuses on its applications at the horizon including those in …

This feature review provides an overview of the state-of the art and recent developments in
tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS), in-depth information about the different …

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 …

As materials functionality becomes more dependent on local physical and electronic
properties, the importance of optically probing matter with true nanoscale spatial resolution …

Raman spectroscopy has emerged as a powerful and important characterisation tool for
probing molecular semiconducting materials. The useful optoelectronic properties of these …