| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/L48638/01 |
| Title: |
DEVELOPMENT OF AN INJECTION LUMINESCENCE SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPY |
| Principal Investigator: |
Trager-Cowan, Dr C |
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Physics |
| Organisation: |
University of Strathclyde |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 October 1997 |
Ends: |
30 September 2000 |
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92,074
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This project will involve the development of a scanning probe microscope with which the luminescence properties of materials may be studied with high resolution. If the light emission induced by a current injecting probe is detected concurrently with the height variation of the probe as it is raster-scanned over the surface of a sample, the sample's topographical and luminescence properties may be simultaneously mapped and compared. This technique, which we will refer to as luminescence scanning probe microscopy (LSPM), opens up exciting opportunities for studying the morphology and luminescence properties of materials down to the atomic scale. The use of STM to excite luminescence was pioneered in IBM, Zurich and the university of Lausanne and to date has been confined to specialist laboratories. With the recent explosion tin the development of novel materials whose physical and therefore luminescence properties vary on the nanometre scale, e.g. semiconductor quantum well, wire and dot structures; conjugated polymers, Langmuir Blodgett films; nanoclusters,....... the time is right to exploit the maturity of SPM technology and the availability of relatively inexpensive component parts, to develop an easy to use, inexpensive LSPM.
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http://www.strath.ac.uk |