TY - JOUR
KW - Methodology
KW - Laser
KW - Lasers
KW - Aluminum
KW - Electron
KW - Electrodes
KW - Chemistry
KW - Electrons
KW - Electrode
KW - Nanoparticles
KW - Near-field
KW - Luminescence
KW - Cerium
KW - Nanostructures
KW - Materials testing
KW - Nanotechnology
KW - Article
KW - Surface properties
KW - Surface property
KW - Imaging techniques
KW - Focused electron beams
KW - Free standing membranes
KW - Lithographic patterning
KW - Mechanical scanning
KW - Nano-optical
KW - NanoPatterning
KW - Near-field optical microscopy
KW - Biological materials
KW - Cathodoluminescence
KW - Photoexcitation
KW - Nanomaterial
KW - Nanoparticle
KW - Equipment design
KW - Monte Carlo method
KW - Optics
KW - Optics and Photonics
AU - D.M Kaz
AU - C.G Bischak
AU - C.L Hetherington
AU - H.H Howard
AU - X Marti
AU - J.D Clarkson
AU - C Adamo
AU - D.G Schlom
AU - Ramamoorthy Ramesh
AU - S Aloni
AU - D.F Ogletree
AU - N.S Ginsberg
AB - Demand for visualizing nanoscale dynamics in biological and advanced materials continues to drive the development of subdiffraction optical probes. While many strategies employ scanning tips for this purpose, we instead exploit a focused electron beam to create scannable nanoscale optical excitations in an epitaxially grown thin-film of cerium-doped yttrium aluminum perovskite, whose cathodoluminescence response is bright, robust, and spatially resolved to 18 nm. We also demonstrate lithographic patterning of the film's luminescence at the nanoscale. We anticipate that converting these films into free-standing membranes will yield a powerful near-field optical microscopy without the complication of mechanical scanning. © 2013 American Chemical Society.
BT - ACS Nano
DO - 10.1021/nn404911a
LA - eng
M1 - 11
N1 - cited By 12
N2 - Demand for visualizing nanoscale dynamics in biological and advanced materials continues to drive the development of subdiffraction optical probes. While many strategies employ scanning tips for this purpose, we instead exploit a focused electron beam to create scannable nanoscale optical excitations in an epitaxially grown thin-film of cerium-doped yttrium aluminum perovskite, whose cathodoluminescence response is bright, robust, and spatially resolved to 18 nm. We also demonstrate lithographic patterning of the film's luminescence at the nanoscale. We anticipate that converting these films into free-standing membranes will yield a powerful near-field optical microscopy without the complication of mechanical scanning. © 2013 American Chemical Society.
PY - 2013
SP - 10397
EP - 10404
T2 - ACS Nano
TI - Bright cathodoluminescent thin films for scanning nano-optical excitation and imaging
VL - 7
SN - 19360851
ER -