title: Recent progress of nano-technology with NSOM.
abstract: Recent progress of nano-technology with near-field scanning optical microscope (NSOM) is surveyed in this article. We focus mainly on NSOM, nano-scale spectroscopy with NSOM, probe technology of NSOM, and study of nano-structured metallic surface with NSOM. First, we follow developments of aperture NSOM and apertureless NSOM, and then address progress of NSOM-combined spectroscopy which is so sufficiently advanced with apertureless NSOM technology to provide chemical information on length scales of a few nanometers. Recent achievement of nano-scale Raman and IR spectroscopy will be introduced. Finally, research on nano-optic elements using surface plasmon polariton with NSOM is introduced as an example of NSOM applications to nano-structured metallic surfaces.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, University of Incheon, 177 Dohwa-Dong, Nam-Gu, Incheon 402-749, Republic of Korea. jhk@incheon.ac.kr
authors.forename: JunHo
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Ki-Bong
authors.initials: KB
authors.lastname: Song