*We present a near-field optical technique *-hich makes use of the strongly enhanced optical field at a laser-illuminated metal tip. The enhanced field is used to locally excite the sample under investigation by multiphoton absorption. An optical scan image w-ith spatial resolutions dow-n to 20 nm is established by detecting the emitted fluorescence. The principle of the method is described and...

We have measured and fitted the kinetics of luminescence of Ag nanoclusters homogeneously dispersed within the bulk of an oxyfluoride glass, with various sample temperatures. The balance equations for the populations of the excited singlet and triplet states of the Ag nanoclusters are proposed and used in this fitting while taking into account inter-system crossing between the singlet and tripl...

An innovative route is reported to fabricate nano-particles in aqueous solution from oxyfluoride glass by the thermal induction and corrosion treatment in this letter. The investigations of X-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscope based on nano-particles in glass ceramics (GCs) and aqueous solution indicate that the nano-particles formed in glass matrix during the thermal inductio...