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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 11, 2011
Applicants:
H. Kumar Wickramasinghe, Irvine, CA (US);
Indrajith Rajapaksa, Irvine, CA (US);
Inventors:
H. Kumar Wickramasinghe, Irvine, CA (US);
Indrajith Rajapaksa, Irvine, CA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01Q 60/38 (2010.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A new method in microscopy is provided which extends the domain of AFM's to nanoscale spectroscopy. Molecular resonance of nanometer features can be detected and imaged purely by mechanical detection of the force gradient between the interaction of the optically driven molecular dipole/multipole and its mirror image in a Platinum coated scanning probe tip. The method is extendable to obtain nanoscale spectroscopic information ranging from infrared to UV and RF.