NANO LETTERS
Subdiffraction Far-Field Imaging of Luminescent Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
2008 Vol. 8, No. 2 749-753
Laurent Cognet,*,†,‡ Dmitri A. Tsyboulski,† and R. Bruce Weisman*,† Department of Chemistry, Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, and Center for Biological and EnVironmental Nanotechnology, Rice UniVersity, 6100 Main Street, Houston, Texas 77005, and Centre de Physique Mole´ culaire Optique et Hertzienne, UniVersite´ Bordeaux 1, and CNRS, Talence, F-33405 France Received October 2, 2007; Revised Manuscript Received December 27, 2007
ABSTRACT Far-field near-infrared fluorescence microscopy of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) has been hampered by the diffraction limit to resolution. A new analysis method is presented that allows subwavelength (