Femtosecond laser photoemission microscopy of capillary nanotips with ultrahigh spatial resolution

A nanolocalized electron beam emitted from silicon nanotubes has been used to image the aperture of a quartz capillary with a channel diameter of 100 nm. An analogous nickel-coated capillary was used as a tip for imaging deposited organic nanostructures by means of femtosecond laser photoelectron projection microscopy (LPPM). Organic nanocomplexes deposited onto the tip surface change the dependence of the photoelectron response signal on the energy density of probing femtosecond laser pulses. An analysis of the LPPM images of capillary nanotips shows that the spatial resolution achieved in these experiments is on a level of 5 nm.