Infrared spectroscopic imaging with high spatial resolution and high sensitivity

Valdas Sablinskas; Gerald Steiner; Justinas Ceponkus; Reiner Salzer

doi:10.1117/12.768977

21 February 2008 Infrared spectroscopic imaging with high spatial resolution and high sensitivity

Valdas Sablinskas, Gerald Steiner, Justinas Ceponkus, Reiner Salzer

Proceedings Volume 6869, Plasmonics in Biology and Medicine V; 68690X (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.768977
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2008, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

Polarization Modulation Infrared Reflection Absorption Spectroscopy (PM-IRRAS) is a very sensitive imaging technique for the characterization of molecular films. In order to achieve a spatial resolution close to the diffraction limit a very small pinhole which acts as a point-source has to be used. However, such a small pinhole, the typical diameter would be app. 100 μm, may reduces dramatically the intensity of the infrared beam. Using a common FTIR spectrometer the spatial resolution is mainly limited by the brilliance of the globar infrared source. Therefore, an improvement in lateral resolution requires a more brilliant light source. The free electron laser (FEL) is such a high brilliant infrared source. The combination of the FEL with the PM-IRRAS imaging system is a new approach to capture spectroscopic images with an excellent spatial resolution close to the diffraction limit. PM-IRRAS images of a self assembly monolayer of phosphonic acid molecules onto a microstructures gold / aluminum oxide surface where characterized. The spectroscopic image exhibits a spatial resolution of app. 5 μm. An evaluation of characteristic absorbance bands of the phosphate group reveals that phosphonic acid molecules bound with a high degree of orientation but differently at the gold and aluminum oxide surfaces. However, the spectroscopic image reveals also several domains of disordering across the surface. Such domains have a dimension of only few micrometers and can be identified in a high resolved PM-IRRAS image.

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Valdas Sablinskas, Gerald Steiner, Justinas Ceponkus, and Reiner Salzer "Infrared spectroscopic imaging with high spatial resolution and high sensitivity", Proc. SPIE 6869, Plasmonics in Biology and Medicine V, 68690X (21 February 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.768977

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Free electron lasers

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Infrared radiation

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