Graphene-enhanced infrared near-field microscopy.

Li, Peining; Wang, Tao; Böckmann, Hannes; Taubner, Thomas · Nano Lett · 2014

basic_science · Level V

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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.