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Near-Field Optical Microscopy of Plasmonic Nanostructures

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Plasmonic metal nanostructures exhibit unique optical properties, and fundamental studies of them are relevant to wide range of research areas. Unique characteristics of the plasmonic nanostructures originate from the localized optical fields and are closely related to spatiotemporal properties of plasmon waves. In this chapter, visualization of plasmon wave functions and localized optical fields by scanning near-field optical microscopy is described.

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The authors thank Dr. T. Nagahara (Kyoto Inst. Tech.), Dr. J. K. Lim (Chosun Univ.), Dr. N. Horimoto (Tohoku Univ.), Dr. T. Shimada (Hirosaki Univ.), Dr. M. K. Hossain (King Fahd Univ.), Prof. M. Kitajiama (Natl. Def. Acad.), Profs. K. Ueno, and H. Misawa (Hokkaido Univ.) for their many essential contributions to this work. The authors also thank the Equipment Development Center of IMS for collaboration in construction of the SNOM apparatus. This work was supported by the Asahi Glass Foundation, the Sumitomo foundation, the Research Foundation for Opto-Science and Technology, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Grant Nos. 16350015, 16750017, 17655011, 17034062, 18205004, 18685003, 19049015, 22655007, and 22225002) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, the Asian CORE program from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and JST PRESTO.

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Imura, K., Okamoto, H. (2013). Near-Field Optical Microscopy of Plasmonic Nanostructures. In: Ohtsu, M. (eds) Handbook of Nano-Optics and Nanophotonics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31066-9_14

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