| List of Contributors | p. v |
| Preface | p. ix |
| Plasmonic materials for surface-enhanced and tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy | p. 1 |
| Introduction | p. 3 |
| Nanosphere lithography | p. 5 |
| Size- and shape-tunable localized surface plasmon resonance spectra | p. 6 |
| Fundamentals of localized surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy | p. 7 |
| Electrodynamic calculations | p. 7 |
| The distance dependence of the localized surface plasmon resonance | p. 9 |
| Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy | p. 14 |
| Wavelength-scanned surface-enhanced Raman excitation spectroscopy | p. 15 |
| SERS enhancement factor calculation | p. 25 |
| SERS distance dependence by atomic layer deposition | p. 27 |
| 2D correlation analysis of SMSERS and single nanoparticle SERS data | p. 29 |
| Tip-enhanced Raman scattering | p. 31 |
| TERS force dependence using AFM | p. 34 |
| Conclusion and outlook | p. 35 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 36 |
| References | p. 37 |
| Towards single molecule sensitivity in surface-enhanced Raman scattering | p. 41 |
| Introduction | p. 43 |
| Experiments and numerical analysis | p. 48 |
| Experimental set up for SERS measurement | p. 48 |
| Ag nanoparticles preparation | p. 48 |
| Numerical analysis of the local electric field and elastic scattering spectra for metal nanostructures | p. 50 |
| Results and discussion | p. 53 |
| Hot particles in SERS | p. 53 |
| Local field evaluation on the Ag nanoparticles | p. 55 |
| Origin of the blinking | p. 63 |
| Blinking at room temperature | p. 63 |
| Blinking at low temperature | p. 66 |
| Critical importance of the junction for SMS-SERS | p. 70 |
| Elastic scattering experiments | p. 70 |
| Numerical simulations of elastic scattering spectra | p. 72 |
| Emission spectra | p. 79 |
| Summary | p. 83 |
| Acknowledgment | p. 84 |
| References | p. 84 |
| Near-field effects in tip-enhanced Raman scattering | p. 87 |
| Introduction | p. 89 |
| Tip enhancement of Raman scattering | p. 90 |
| Metallic probe as a nanolight source | p. 90 |
| Enhancement mechanism for Rhodamine 6G | p. 91 |
| RRS and SERRS spectra of R6G | p. 92 |
| TERS spectra of R6G | p. 94 |
| Near-field Raman scattering from Carbon-60 | p. 98 |
| The gap-mode enhancement | p. 98 |
| Tip-force effect on C60 | p. 100 |
| Tip-enhanced nonlinear optical spectroscopy | p. 105 |
| Photon confinement due to nonlinear optical effect | p. 105 |
| Tip-enhanced coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering | p. 106 |
| Experimental system | p. 109 |
| Tip-enhanced CARS images of DNA clusters | p. 110 |
| Conclusion | p. 112 |
| References | p. 112 |
| Use of tip-enhanced vibrational spectroscopy for analytical applications in chemistry, biology, and materials science | p. 115 |
| Introduction | p. 117 |
| Setups for tip-enhanced vibrational spectroscopy | p. 118 |
| Tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS) | p. 118 |
| Tip-enhanced coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (TE-CARS) | p. 119 |
| Scattering scanning near-field optical microscopy (s-SNOM) | p. 121 |
| Tip fabrication | p. 123 |
| Enhancement factors and lateral resolution | p. 125 |
| TERS contrasts and enhancement factors | p. 125 |
| Comparison of TERS contrasts and enhancement factors | p. 132 |
| Lateral resolution in apertureless near-field microscopy | p. 134 |
| Chemical applications | p. 135 |
| Dyes | p. 135 |
| Catalysis | p. 135 |
| Microfluidics and chromatography | p. 137 |
| Biological applications | p. 138 |
| Biopolymers | p. 138 |
| Viruses and biological tissues | p. 141 |
| Applications in materials science | p. 143 |
| Nanotubes | p. 143 |
| Material-specific mapping | p. 145 |
| Semiconductors | p. 148 |
| SERS substrates | p. 149 |
| Conclusions and outlook | p. 150 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 152 |
| References | p. 153 |
| Tip-enhanced optical spectroscopy of single-walled carbon nanotubes | p. 157 |
| Introduction | p. 159 |
| Experimental setup | p. 160 |
| Single-walled carbon nanotubes | p. 161 |
| Near-field Raman spectroscopy of SWCNTs | p. 163 |
| Near-field photoluminescence spectroscopy of SWCNTs | p. 167 |
| Discussion of the signal enhancement and the image contrast | p. 170 |
| Conclusions and outlook | p. 172 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 173 |
| References | p. 173 |
| Scanning nano-Raman spectroscopy of silicon and other semiconducting materials | p. 177 |
| Introduction | p. 179 |
| Side-illumination geometry and preparation of tips | p. 182 |
| Apparent enhancement and its localization | p. 184 |
| Tip enhancement and contrast | p. 189 |
| Improving contrast for silicon | p. 191 |
| Optical properties of the apertureless tips | p. 197 |
| Summary and outlook | p. 201 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 202 |
| References | p. 202 |
| Near-field optical structuring and manipulation based on local field enhancement in the vicinity of metal nano structures | p. 205 |
| Introduction: context and motivation | p. 207 |
| General consideration on the optics of metal nanostructures | p. 211 |
| Tip-enhanced optical lithography (TEOL) | p. 217 |
| TEOL on inorganic material | p. 218 |
| TEOL on photopolymer | p. 220 |
| NFOL based on localized 3-D surface plasmons | p. 227 |
| Mask-based surface plasmon lithography | p. 229 |
| Conclusion | p. 231 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 231 |
| References | p. 232 |
| Apertureless near-field microscopy of second-harmonic generation | p. 235 |
| Introduction | p. 237 |
| Second-harmonic generation imaging with SNOM | p. 240 |
| SHG in the presence of a probe tip | p. 242 |
| SHG from a probe tip: a localized light source | p. 244 |
| Tip-enhanced surface SHG | p. 245 |
| Self-consistent model of second-harmonic ASNOM | p. 247 |
| Second-harmonic ASNOM: experimental realisation | p. 251 |
| SHG enhancement at conical objects | p. 254 |
| SHG from a metal tip apex | p. 256 |
| SHG ASNOM applications for functional materials characterisation | p. 264 |
| Conclusion | p. 270 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 271 |
| References | p. 272 |
| Resonant optical antennas and single emitters | p. 275 |
| Introduction | p. 277 |
| Antenna basics | p. 279 |
| Field enhancement in resonant dipole antennas | p. 281 |
| Emission of radiation from dipole antennas | p. 282 |
| Antenna equivalent circuit | p. 283 |
| Antenna impedance | p. 284 |
| True current distribution in a thin dipole antenna | p. 285 |
| Antennas for light | p. 289 |
| Introduction | p. 289 |
| Light confinement by resonant dipole antennas | p. 290 |
| Nonplasmonic optical antenna | p. 290 |
| Plasmonic optical antenna | p. 292 |
| Light confinement by a resonant bowtie antenna | p. 294 |
| Fabrication and characterization of resonant optical antennas | p. 294 |
| Single dipole emitters coupled to optical antennas | p. 297 |
| Properties of single dipole emitters near metal nano structures | p. 300 |
| Experimental realization: creating an antenna-based super-emitter | p. 302 |
| Conclusion | p. 304 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 304 |
| References | p. 304 |
| Author index | p. 309 |
| Subject index | p. 321 |
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