Fern (Onoclea sensibilis L.) gametophytes exposed to blue light are induced to undergo a morphological transition from a tip-growing filament to a planar prothallus. Extracellular measurements of electric currents and localized ion activities around the apical cell of 8 to 10 day-old gametophytes were made with a vibrating probe and ion selective electrodes. In darkness, we observed exit curren...

Experiments and simulations are used to elucidate a new class of chemical reactions occurring near the tip-sample interface during high field chemistry of diphenylgermane. Current data during writing and bias dependent growth rate are analyzed, supplemented with data from ionization mass spectrometry, and compared with the simulation results.

Near-field photoluminescence spectroscopy was used to study the electronic properties of semiconducting Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes in different environments. A sharp laser-illuminated metal tip was raster scanned over the sample and served as a strongly confined excitation source. We observed localization of photoluminescence and variations of emission energies along nanotubes on a length s...

Nano-structuring of various materials is important for a number of future oriented technical applications. Local intensity enhancement of laser irradiation in the near field of a SPM tip enables the processing of sub-diffraction limit features. The tip-sample gap, which is a critical parameter for the field enhancement needs to be very precisely controlled. In the present work, the design of la...

Fern (Onoclea sensibiis L.) gametophytes exposed to blue light are induced to undergo a morphological transition from a tip-growing filament to a planar prothallus. Extracellular measurements of electric currents and localized ion activities around the apical cell of 8 to 10 day-old gametophytes were made with a vibrating probe and ion selective electrodes. In darkness, we observed exit current...