Super-resolution visible photoactivated atomic force microscopy

Light, Science & Applications
Seunghyun LeeChulhong Kim

Abstract

Imaging the intrinsic optical absorption properties of nanomaterials with optical microscopy (OM) is hindered by the optical diffraction limit and intrinsically poor sensitivity. Thus, expensive and destructive electron microscopy (EM) has been commonly used to examine the morphologies of nanostructures. Further, while nanoscale fluorescence OM has become crucial for investigating the morphologies and functions of intracellular specimens, this modality is not suitable for imaging optical absorption and requires the use of possibly undesirable exogenous fluorescent molecules for biological samples. Here we demonstrate super-resolution visible photoactivated atomic force microscopy (pAFM), which can sense intrinsic optical absorption with ~8 nm resolution. Thus, the resolution can be improved down to ~8 nm. This system can detect not only the first harmonic response, but also the higher harmonic response using the nonlinear effect. The thermoelastic effects induced by pulsed laser irradiation allow us to obtain visible pAFM images of single gold nanospheres, various nanowires, and biological cells, all with nanoscale resolution. Unlike expensive EM, the visible pAFM system can be simply implemented by adding an optical excitation...Continue Reading

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Apr 11, 2019·Journal of Biomedical Optics·Paul Kumar Upputuri, Manojit Pramanik
Jan 4, 2019·Biomedical Engineering Letters·Paul Kumar Upputuri, Manojit Pramanik
Mar 19, 2019·Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling·Fei HuHong-Xing Zhang
Aug 26, 2021·Scientific Reports·Byullee ParkChulhong Kim
Mar 19, 2019··Seonghee ChoSeongwook Choi

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Methods Mentioned

BETA
optical diffraction
electron microscopy
super-resolution microscopy
infrared spectroscopy
atomic force microscopy
AFM
electron-beam lithography
surface plasmon resonances
scanning electron microscopy
super-resolution optical microscopy

Software Mentioned

pAFM
PAM

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