Publications

Selected publications using NeaSNOM technology:

2012
ACS nano
 P. S. Carney, B. Deutsch, A. A. Govyadinov, and R. Hillenbrand Phase in Nanooptics
2011
Optics Express 20, p.593 R. Krutokhvostov, A. A. Govyadinov, J. M. Stiegler, F. Huth, A. Chuvilin, P. S. Carney, and R. Hillenbrand Enhanced resolution in subsurface near-field optical microscopy
Nano letters 11, p.5333
 V. Bonanni, S. Bonetti, T. Pakizeh, Z. Pirazadeh, J. Chen, J. Nogues, P. Vavassori, R. Hillenbrand, J. Akerman, and A. Dmitriev Designer magnetoplasmonics with Nickel Nanoferromagnets
ACS nano 5, p.6494 J. M. Stiegler, Y. Abate, A. Cvitkovic, Y. E. Romanyuk, A. J. Huber, S. R. Leone, and R. Hillenbrand Nanoscale Infrared Absorption Spectroscopy of Individual Nanoparticles Enabled by Scattering-Type Near-Field Microscopy
Optics Express 19, p.20865
 Z. Nuno, B. Hessler, J. Ochoa, Y.-S. Shon, C. Bonney, and Y. Abate Nanoscale subsurface- and material-specific identification of single nanoparticles
Optics Express 19, p.15047
 D. Weber, P. Albella, P. Alonso-Gonzalez, F. Neubrech, H. Gui, T. Nagao, R. Hillenbrand, J. Aizpurua, and A. Pucci Longitudinal and transverse coupling in infrared gold nanoantenna arrays: long range versus short range interaction regimes
Nano letters 11, p.4701 Z. Fei, G. O. Andreev, W. Bao, L. M. Zhang, A. S. McLeod, C. Wang, M. K. Stewart, Z. Zhao, G. Dominguez, M. Thiemens, M. M. Fogler, M. J. Tauber, An. H. Castro-Neto, C. N. Lau, F. Keilmann, and D. N. Basov

Infrared nanoscopy of Dirac Plasmons at the Graphene-SiO2 Interface
Nano letters 11, p.3922 P. Alonso-Gonzalez, M. Schnell, P. Sarriugarte, H. Sobhani, C. Wu, N. Arju, A. Khanikaev, F. Golmar, P. Albella, L. Arzubiaga, F. Casanova, L. E. Hueso, P. Nordlander, G. Shvets, and R. Hillenbrand Real-Space Mapping of Fano Interference in Plasmonic Metamolecules


Small (Cover article) 7, p. 2341

 J. Chen, P. Albella, Z. Pirzadeh, P. Alonso–Gonzales, F. Huth, S. Bonetti, V. Bonanni, J. Akermann, J. Nogues, P. Vavassori, A. Dmitriev, J. Aizpurua, and R. Hillenbrand Plasmonic Nickel Nanoantennas

Nature Materials 10, p. 352		 F. Huth, M. Schnell, J. Wittborn, N. Ocelic and R. Hillenbrand Infrared-spectroscopic nanoimaging with a thermal source

Nature Photonics 5, p. 283
 M. Schnell, P. Alonso-Gonzalez, L. Arzubiaga, F. Casanova, L. E. Hueso, A. Chuvilin and R. Hillenbrand Nanofocusing of mid-infrared energy with tapered transmission lines
Physical Review B 83, p.45404 Amarie, S. and F. Keilmann Broadband-infrared assessment of phonon resonance in scattering-type near-field microscopy
2010
Nanotechology 21, p.235702 A. J. Huber, J. Wittborn, and R. Hillenbrand Infrared spectroscopic near-field mapping of single nanotransistors
Nano letters 10, p.1387 J. M. Stiegler, A. J. Huber, S. L. Diedenhofen, J. Gómez Rivas, R. E. Algra, E. P. A. M. Bakkers, and R. Hillenbrand Nanoscale Free Carrier Profiling on Individual Semiconductor Nanowires by Infrared Near-Field Nanoscopy
Journal of Physical Chemistry C 114, p.7341 M. Schnell, A. Garcia-Etxarri, A. J. Huber, K. B. Crozier, A. Borisov, J. Aizpurua, and R. Hillenbrand Amplitude- and Phase-Resolved Near-Field Mapping of Infrared Antenna Modes by Transmission-Mode Scattering-Type Near-Field Microscopy
Nano letters 10, 3524 M. Schnell, A. Garcia-Etxarri, J. Alkorta, J. Aizpurua and R. Hillenbrand Phase-Resolved Mapping of the Near-Field Vector and Polarization State in Nanoscale Antenna Gaps
2009


Nature Nanotechnology 4, p.153

 A. J. Huber, A. Ziegler, T. Köck, and R. Hillenbrand Infrared nanoscopy of strained semiconductors
Optics Express 17, p.22351 A. M. Gigler, A. J. Huber, M. Bauer, A. Ziegler, R. Hillenbrand, and R. Stark Nanoscale residual stress-field mapping around nanoindents in SiC by IR s-SNOM and confocal Raman microscopy

Nature Photonics 3, p.287		 M. Schnell, A. Garcia-Etxarri, A. J. Huber, K. Crozier, J. Aizpurua, and R. Hillenbrand Controlling the near-field oscillations of loaded plasmonic nanoantennas
Physical Review B 79, p. 125439 A. Garcia-Etxarri, I. Romero, F. J. Garcia de Abajo, R. Hillenbrand, and J. Aizpurua Influence of the tip in near-field imaging of nanoparticle plasmon modes: Weak and strong coupling regimes
A.Zayats and D. Richards, Editors, Artech House, ISBN 978-1-59693-284-5 Keilmann, F. and R. Hillenbrand Near-field nanoscopy by elastic light scattering from a tip, in Nano-Optics and Near-Field Optical Microscopy
Journal of Infrared, Millimeter and Terahertz Waves 30, 1255 F. Keilmann, A. Huber, and R. Hillenbrand Nanoscale conductivity contrast by scattering-type near-field optical microscopy in the visible, infrared and THz domains
Physical Review B 80, 115115 A. Frenzel, M. M. Qazilbash, M. Brehm, Byung-Gyu Chae, Bong-Jun Kim, Hyun-Tak Kim, A. V. Balatsky, F. Keilmann, and D. N. Basov Inhomogeneous electronic state near the insulator-to-metal transition in the correlated oxide VO2
2008
Nature 456, p.454 P. Planken A terahertz nanoscope
Nano Letters 8, p.3766 A. J. Huber, F. Keilmann, J. Wittborn, J. Aizpurua and R. Hillenbrand Terahertz Near-Field Nanoscopy of Mobile Carriers in Single Semiconductor Nanodevices
Applied Physical Letters 92, p.203104 A. J. Huber, B. Deutsch, L. Novotny, and R. Hillenbrand Focusing of surface phonon polaritons
Optics  Express 16, 1529 J. Aizpurua, T. Taubner, F. J. Garcia de Abajo, M. Brehm, and R. Hillenbrand Substrate-enhanced infrared near-field spectroscopy
2007
Advanced Materials 19, p.2209 A. J. Huber, D. Kazantsev, F. Keilmann, J. Wittborn, and R. Hillenbrand Simultaneous IR Material Recognition and Conductivity Mapping by Nanoscale Near-Field Microscopy
Nano Letters 7, p.3177 A. Cvitkovic, N. Ocelic, and R. Hillenbrand Material-Specific Infrared Recognition of Single Sub-10 nm Particles by Substrate-Enhanced Scattering-Type Near-Field Microscopy
Journal of Microscopy 229, p.389 A. J. Huber, N. Ocelic, and R. Hillenbrand Local excitation and interference of surface phonon polaritons studied by near-field infrared microscopy
Optics Express 15, 8550 A. Cvitikovic, N. Ocelic, and R. Hillenbrand Analytical model for quantitative prediction of material contrasts in scattering-type near-field optical microscopy
Science 318, p.1750 M. M. Qazilbash, M. Brehm, Byung-Gyu Chae, P.-C. Ho, G. O. Andreev, Bong-Jun Kim, Sun Jin Yun, A. V. Balatsky, M. B. Maple, F. Keilmann, Hyun-Tak Kim and D. N. Basov Mott Transition in VO2 Revealed by Infrared Spectroscopy and Nano-Imaging
2006
Nano letters 6, p.1307 M. Brehm, T. Taubner, R. Hillenbrand, and F. Keilmann Infrared Spectroscopic Mapping of Single Nanoparticles and Viruses at Nanoscale Resolution
Nano letters 6, p.774 A. Huber, N. Ocelic, T. Taubner, and R. Hillenbrand Nanoscale Resolved Infrared Probing of Crystal Structure and of Plasmon−Phonon Coupling
Physical Review Letters 97, p.60801 A. Cvitkovic, N. Ocelic, J. Aizpurua, R. Guckenberger, and R. Hillenbrand Infrared Imaging of Single Nanoparticles via Strong Field Enhancement in a Scanning Nanogap
Science 313, p.1595 T. Taubner, D. Korobkin, Y. Urzhumov, G. Shvets and R. Hillenbrand Near-Field Microscopy Through a SiC Superlens
Applied Physical Letters 89, 101124 N. Ocelic, A. Huber, and R. Hillenbrand Pseudo-heterodyne detection for background-free near-field spectroscopy
2005
Applied Physical Letters 87, p.81103 A. Huber, N. Ocelic, D. Kazantsev, and R. Hillenbrand Near-field imaging of mid-infrared surface phonon polariton propagation
Optics Express 13, 8893 T. Taubner, F. Keilmann, and R. Hillenbrand Nanoscale resolved subsurface imaging by scattering-type near-field optical microscopy
Physical Review B 71, 075410 J. Renger, S. Grafström, L.M. Eng, and R. Hillenbrand Resonant light scattering by near-field induced phonon polaritons
2004
Applied Physical Letters 85, p.5064 T. Taubner, R. Hillenbrand, and F. Keilmann Nanoscale polymer recognition by spectral signature in scattering infrared near-field microscopy
Applied Physical Letters 85, 4466 D. Häfliger, J. Plitzko, and R. Hillenbrand Contrast and scattering efficiency of scattering-type near-field optical probes
Nature Materials 3, p.606 N. Ocelic, and R. Hillenbrand Subwavelength-scale tailoring of surface phonon polaritons by focused ion-beam implantation
Nano letters 4, 1669 T. Taubner, F. Keilmann, and R. Hillenbrand Nano-mechanical resonance tuning and phase effects in optical near-field interaction
Philosophical Transactions A, 362, 787 F. Keilmann and R. Hillenbrand Near-field optical microscopy by elastic light scattering from a tip
2003
Applied Physical Letters 83, p. 368 R. Hillenbrand, F. Keilmann, P. Hanarp, D. S. Sutherland, and J .Aizpurua Coherent imaging of nanoscale plasmon patterns with a carbon nanotube optical probe
Journal of Microsccopy 210, 311 T. Taubner, R. Hillenbrand, and F. Keilmann Performance of visible and mid-infrared scattering-type near-field optical microscopes
2002
Nature 418, p.159 R. Hillenbrand, T. Taubner, and F. Keilmann Phonon-enhanced light-matter interaction at the nanometre scale
Applied Physical Letters 80, 25 R. Hillenbrand and F. Keilmann Material-specific mapping of metal/semiconductor/dielectric nanosystems at 10 nm resolution by back-scattering near-field optical microscopy
2001
Applied Physics B 73, 239 R. Hillenbrand, and F. Keilmann Optical oscillation modes of plasmon particles observed in direct space by phase-contrast near-field images
Journal of Microscopy 202, 77 R. Hillenbrand, B. Knoll, and F. Keilmann Pure optical contrast in scattering-type SNOM
2000
Physical Review Letters 80, 3029 R. Hillenbrand and F. Keilmann Complex optical constants on a subwavelength scale