Instrumentação e montagem de um sistema de SNOM para medidas de nanoestruturas individuais

Abstract

The Raman Spectroscopy is a well stablished technique to study the chemical and structural properties of a variety of nanomaterials. However, its full potentiality on nanoscale is limited by the diffraction limit and the low intensity of Raman signal, for the most of single nanoobjects or molecules. The Tip Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (TERS) appears as a useful technique to overcoming these barriers, thus allowing the applicability of Raman spectroscopy to analyse nanostructures. In this work, we describe the functional principles of TERS and the implementation of experimental apparatus needed to its realization, which include setting the AFM, optics and tip fabrication. The system was successfully tested by measuring single linear carbon chains. Simultaneously, carbon nanotubes containing linear carbon chain are studied.