Article Cathodoluminescence excitation spectroscopy: Nanoscale imaging of excitation pathways

Nadezda Varkentina ; Yves Auad ; Steffi Y. Woo ; Alberto Zobelli ; Laura Bocher ; Jean-Denis Blazit ; Xiaoyan Li ; Marcel Tencé ; Kenji Watanabe SAMURAI ORCID (National Institute for Materials Science) ; Takashi Taniguchi SAMURAI ORCID (National Institute for Materials Science) ; Odile Stéphan ; Mathieu Kociak ; Luiz H. G. Tizei

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Nadezda Varkentina, Yves Auad, Steffi Y. Woo, Alberto Zobelli, Laura Bocher, Jean-Denis Blazit, Xiaoyan Li, Marcel Tencé, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Odile Stéphan, Mathieu Kociak, Luiz H. G. Tizei. Cathodoluminescence excitation spectroscopy: Nanoscale imaging of excitation pathways. Science Advances. 2022, 8 (40), .
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Photoluminescence Excitation spectroscopy (PLE) is crucial in understanding materials photo- physics, which play an important role in devices design and optimization. Unfortunately, PLE is handicapped by the diffraction limit when addressing the nanometric properties of matter, and no equivalent near-field spectroscopy has emerged so far. By coincidentally measuring the energy loss of a relativistic electron on optical materials (plasmonic nanoparticles, luminescent 2D materials) and their subsequent light emission, we demonstrate the possibility of making cathodolumines- cence excitation spectroscopy, a natural counterpart of PLE with a resolution better than 10 nm. The information retrieved should prove unvaluable for the understanding materials optics at the nanometer scale.

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Keyword: Optical excitations, photoluminescence, cathodoluminescence

Date published: 2022-10-07

Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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  • Science Advances (ISSN: 23752548) vol. 8 issue. 40

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First published URL: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abq4947

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