How to explain the image of photon scanning tunneling microscope (PSTM)

Shifa Wu; Guoshu Jian; Shi Pan

doi:10.1117/12.326839

13 October 1998 How to explain the image of photon scanning tunneling microscope (PSTM)

Shifa Wu, Guoshu Jian, Shi Pan

Proceedings Volume 3467, Far- and Near-Field Optics: Physics and Information Processing; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.326839
Event: SPIE's International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation, 1998, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

This paper attempts to answer the question of 'how to explain the image of photon scanning tunneling microscope (PSTM)'. To explain the image of PSTM, the essential difficulty is the false image information within the complex image of the topographical image and refractive index image of sample. In this paper, we have derived the PSTM imaging formula and introduced the eliminating false image information method and image separating method, and discussed the key to super-resolution of near-field optical microscopy. Numerical simulation and experiments with the method of perturbation diffraction combined with (pi) - symmetric lighting eliminating false image information are provided.

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Shifa Wu, Guoshu Jian, and Shi Pan "How to explain the image of photon scanning tunneling microscope (PSTM)", Proc. SPIE 3467, Far- and Near-Field Optics: Physics and Information Processing, (13 October 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.326839

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