Physics – Optics
Scientific paper
2005-05-25
Physics
Optics
10 pages, 4 figures; submitted to Physical Review Letters
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.047601
Photoemission electron microscopy was used to image the electrons photoemitted from specially tailored Ag nanoparticles deposited on a Si substrate (with its native oxide SiO$_{x}$). Photoemission was induced by illumination with a Hg UV-lamp (photon energy cutoff $\hbar\omega_{UV}=5.0$ eV, wavelength $\lambda_{UV}=250$ nm) and with a Ti:Sapphire femtosecond laser ($\hbar\omega_{l}=3.1$ eV, $\lambda_{l}=400$ nm, pulse width below 200 fs), respectively. While homogeneous photoelectron emission from the metal is observed upon illumination at energies above the silver plasmon frequency, at lower photon energies the emission is localized at tips of the structure. This is interpreted as a signature of the local electrical field therefore providing a tool to map the optical near field with the resolution of emission electron microscopy.
Cinchetti Mirko
Gloskovskii A.
Kreiter Max
Nepjiko S. A.
Rochholz H.
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