In:
Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Wiley, Vol. 58, No. 2 ( 2019-01-08), p. 572-576
Abstract:
Herein we report a reflection‐mode total internal reflection microscopy (TIRM) to measure the extinction spectrum of individual dielectric, plasmonic, or light‐absorbing nanoparticles, and to differentiate absorption and scattering components from the total optical output. These capabilities were enabled via illuminating the sample with evanescent wave of which the lightpath length was comparable with the size of single nanoparticles, leading to a dramatically improved reflectance change (Δ I / I 0 ) up to tens of percent. It was further found that scattering and absorption of light contributed to bright and dark centroids, respectively, in the optical patterns of single nanoparticles, allowing to distinguish scattering and absorption components from the extinction spectrum by the use of an appropriate image processing method. In addition, wide‐field feature of TIRM enabled the studies on tens of nanoparticles simultaneously with gentle illumination.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
1433-7851
,
1521-3773
DOI:
10.1002/anie.201810324
Language:
English
Publisher:
Wiley
Publication Date:
2019
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2011836-3
detail.hit.zdb_id:
123227-7
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