Graphene-enhanced infrared near-field microscopy

Nano Lett. 2014 Aug 13;14(8):4400-5. doi: 10.1021/nl501376a. Epub 2014 Jul 17.

Abstract

Graphene is a promising two-dimensional platform for widespread nanophotonic applications. Recent theories have predicted that graphene can also enhance evanescent fields for subdiffraction-limited imaging. Here, for the first time we experimentally demonstrate that monolayer graphene offers a 7-fold enhancement of evanescent information, improving conventional infrared near-field microscopy to resolve buried structures at a 500 nm depth with λ/11-resolution.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't