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Optica, Optics Express, 16(21), p. 19261, 2013

DOI: 10.1364/oe.21.019261

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Conductive optical-fiber STM probe for local excitation and collection of cathodoluminescence at semiconductor surfaces

Journal article published in 2013 by Kentaro Watanabe ORCID, Yoshiaki Nakamura, Masakazu Ichikawa
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

Luminescence imaging of semiconductor surfaces in nanometric resolution is a key to novel optoelectronic nano-devices, which requires local carrier excitation and local luminescence collection within the nanometric areas at the surfaces. However, there have not been a practical nanospectroscopies applicable to wide range of specimens. STM-cathodoluminescence (STM-CL) nanospectroscopy offers both high spatial resolution (of the order of 10 nm) and novel high carrier excitation power (up to ~1 mW), which enables local luminescence imaging of less-luminescent nano-structures. In this study, we advanced STM-CL technique by introducing a novel optical fiber probe with Cr thin film coating (Cr-FP), which was found to work as a STM probe, as an electron field-emitter for local carrier excitation, and as an alignment-free efficient local STM-CL collector which blinds luminescence after the minority carrier diffusion.