Near-field optical probe manufacturing using organo-mineral material and sol-gel process

摘要

The present invention concerns a method for manufacturing near-field optical probes comprising at least one organo-mineral material with an organic part and a mineral part, comprising steps of irradiating at least partially the organo-mineral material with a radiation beam to polymerize the organic part in the irradiated areas, and polycondensing the mineral part by sol-gel process. The present invention concerns also near-field optical probes and AFM and SNOM systems using the probes.