| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/R07752/01 |
| Title: |
Applications & New Developments In High Resolution Surface Plasmon Microscopy |
| Principal Investigator: |
Somekh, Professor M |
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| Department: |
Sch of Electrical and Electronic Eng |
| Organisation: |
University of Nottingham |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
13 August 2000 |
Ends: |
12 November 2000 |
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9,096
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| Instrumentation Eng. & Dev. |
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This project is aimed to support a short visit (3 months) for Dr T Velinov to work in the department. The primary aim of the visit is to extend the scanning surface plasmon microscope he worked on during his previous visit to allow wide field imaging. This will be achieved by modifying a speckle illumination interferometer presently being developed under GR/M51611. The microscope produced is expected to give an order of magnitude better lateral resolution compared to existing far field surface plasmon microscope techniques, we expect to obtain lateral resolution of approximately 0.5 microns.We also intend to examine the possibility of in vivo imaging using an ultra high numerical aperture objective (NA=1/65) we have recently obtained. This should allow imaging when the metal layer is backed with an aqueous solution. Finally we intend to use the surface plasmon microscope to produce microscopic images on silver films subjected to corrosion. The microscopic images will be compared with averaged values obtained using ellipsometry.
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http://www.nottingham.ac.uk |