| Budget Amount *help |
¥5,070,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,170,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥90,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥3,380,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥780,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Infrared synchrotron radiation (IR-SR) is a highly brilliant white light source. We are developing an infrared near-field spectroscopy system with an IR-SR light source. The near-field spectroscopy system previously reported comprised an atomic force microscope (AFM) and a commercial Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometer. In the present study, the configuration of the FTIR interferometer has been modified to an asymmetric one. In the asymmetric interferometer, one beam split by a beamsplitter is focused onto the tip of an AFM probe, and the other beam goes to a movable mirror. The scattered light from the probe and the light reflcted by the movable mirror interfere with each other. The near-field signal is extracted by a modulation method with an AFM oscillation frequency. The signal-to-noise ratio has been improved 6-fold and the signal-to-background ratio is improved 8-fold compared with those observed in the previous system.
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