Near-Field Manipulation in a Scanning Tunneling Microscope Junction with Plasmonic Fabry-Pérot Tips.
Hannes BöckmannShuyi LiuMelanie MüllerAdnan HammudMartin WolfTakashi KumagaiPublished in: Nano letters (2019)
Near-field manipulation in plasmonic nanocavities can provide various applications in nanoscale science and technology. In particular, a gap plasmon in a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) junction is of key interest to nanoscale imaging and spectroscopy. Here we show that spectral features of a plasmonic STM junction can be manipulated by nanofabrication of Au tips using focused ion beam. An exemplary Fabry-Pérot type resonator of surface plasmons is demonstrated by producing the tip with a single groove on its shaft. Scanning tunneling luminescence spectra of the Fabry-Pérot tips exhibit spectral modulation resulting from interference between localized and propagating surface plasmon modes. In addition, the quality factor of the plasmonic Fabry-Pérot interference can be improved by optimizing the overall tip shape. Our approach paves the way for near-field imaging and spectroscopy with a high degree of accuracy.
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