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Near-field scanning techniques have been successfully employed to overcome the diffraction-based resolution limit of the classical microscope. The resolution of the SNOM (scanning near-field optical microscope) no longer depends on the wavelength of the electromagnetic radiation but is rather given by the size and proximity of a scanning antenna [1, 2]. Consequently it should be feasible that the well-established infrared spectroscopy in the “fingerprint” wavelength region from 3 to 30 μm be developed to perform with minute samples: either to acquire spectra of submicrometric objects, or even to generate infrared-spectroscopic images with down to 100 or 10 nm spatial resolution [3],
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Keilmann, F., Knoll, B. (1997). Infrared Scanning Near-Field Microscopy. In: Carmona, P., Navarro, R., Hernanz, A. (eds) Spectroscopy of Biological Molecules: Modern Trends. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5622-6_271
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