The article concerning "nanoscale chemical mapping using three-dimensional adiabatic compression of surface plasmon polaritons" has been recently published (November 22 2009) on Nature Nanotecnology.
The team (from IIT, UMG, CBM,CNR-INFM-TASC) developed a photonic–plasmonic device fully compatible with AFM and Raman spectroscopy which could be used to obtain topographic, chemical and
structural information about silicon nanocrystals with a spatial resolution of 7 nm.
SingleMoleculeDetection will integrate on the same device an atomic force microscope (AFM) or an optical tweezer (OT), with Raman/SERS/IR/TeraHertz microscopy so to perform simultaneously - and in a dynamic way - force and spectroscopic measurements.
