Diamond colour centres as a nanoscopic light source for scanning near‐field optical microscopy
- 1 April 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Microscopy
- Vol. 202 (1), 2-6
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2818.2001.00829.x
Abstract
Recently it was shown that a single molecule at cryogenic temperatures could be used as a local light source for illumination of a sample in the near field. Conventional light‐emitting systems such a...Keywords
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