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Surface Plasmon and Surface Wave Microscopy

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Optical Imaging and Microscopy

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Surface plasmons (SPs) — or surface plasmon polaritons — are guided electromagnetic surface waves [1]. In their simplest form these are bound in a metallic or conducting layer sandwiched between two dielectrics. The confinement of these waves makes them particularly attractive as chemical and biological sensors being especially sensitive probes of interfacial properties [2,3]. On the other hand, the fact that SPs have characteristics distinct from bulk waves means that the optimum way to perform high resolution microscopy differs significantly from other microscopy techniques.

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  1. Department of Physics, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, Prince Consort Road, SW7 2BW, London, UK

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  2. Department of Physics, National Sun Yat-sen University, 70 Lien Hai Road, 80424, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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Somekh, M.G. (2003). Surface Plasmon and Surface Wave Microscopy. In: Török, P., Kao, FJ. (eds) Optical Imaging and Microscopy. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 87. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-46022-0_12

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