Preface
1. Plasmonic Materials for Surface-Enhanced and tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy, (M.A. Young, J.A. Dieringer, and R.P. van Duyne)
2. Towards single molecule sensitivity in surface enhanced Raman scattering, (M. Futamata, and Y. Maruyama)
3. Near field effects in tip-enhanced Raman scattering, (Y. Inouye, P. Verma, T. Ichimura, and
S. Kawata)
4. Use of tip-enhanced vibrational spectroscopy for analytical applications in chemistry, biology, and materials science, (T. Schmid, B.-S. Yeo, W. Zhang, and R. Zenobi)
5. Tip-enhanced Optical Spectroscopy of Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes, (A. Hartschuh, H. Qian,
A.J. Meixner, N. Anderson, and L. Novotny)
6. Scanning Nano-Raman Spectroscopy of Silicon and Other Semiconducting Materials, (D. Mehtani,
N. Lee, R.D. Hartschuh, A. Kisliuk, M.D. Foster,
A.P. Sokolov, and J.F. Maguire)
7. Near-field Optical Structuring and Manipulation Based on Local Field Enhancement in the Vicinity of Metal Nano Structures, (R. Bachelot)
8. Apertureless near-field microscopy of second-harmonic generation, (A. Zayats)
9. Single emitters and optical antennas, (B. Hecht)