Education
Ph.D. 1999, Environmental Science, Physics, Portland State University
M.S. 1993, Physics, Portland State University
B.S. 1989, Physics, Portland State University
Research Interests
Development and implementation of nano-scale imaging techniques. Study of the optical interaction of light and nanometric objects in order to generate enhanced fields for fluorescence and Raman spectroscopy/microscopy. Determination of new applications for Focused Ion / Electron Beam systems towards the study of biological systems using near-field and far-field microscopies.
Selected Publications
J. T. Krug II, E. J. Sánchez, X. S. Xie, "Fluorescence Quenching in Tip-Enhanced Nonlinear Optical Microscopy", Applied Phys. Lett., May 30, 2005.
Hartschuh, Achim, Sánchez, Erik J. , Xie, X. Sunney, Novotny, Lukas "Near-field Raman Spectroscopy of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes", Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 9, March 7, 2003.
Sánchez, Erik J.; Krug, John T. II; Xie, X. Sunney "Ion and Electron Beam Assisted Growth of Nanometeric SimOn Structures for Near-Field Microscopy", J. Chem. Phys. 284, 423, 2002.
Krug, John T. II; Sánchez, Erik J.; Xie, X. Sunney "Design of near-field probes with optimal field enhancement by finite difference time domain electromagnetic simulation", J. Chem. Phys., 116, 24, 10895, 2002.
L. Novotny, E. J. Sánchez, and X. S. Xie, Near-field optical spectroscopy based on the field enhancement at laser illuminated metal tips, Optics and Photonics News, December, 1999.
Progress made in near-field imaging with light from a sharp tip, Physics Today, July, pp. 1820, 1999.
E.J. Sánchez, L. Novotny, X. S. Xie, "Near-field Fluorescence Microscopy Based on Two-Photon Excitation With Metal Tips", Phys. Rev. Lett. , Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 20, 1999.
L. Novotny, E.J. Sánchez, X. S. Xie, "Near-field Optical Imaging Using Metal Tips Illuminated by Higher-order Hermite-Gaussian Beams", Ultramicroscopy 71, 21, 1998.
Erik Sanchez