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Photothermal microscopy: a step from thermal wave visualization to spatially localized thermal analysis
Author(s) -
GALOVIĆ S.,
STOJANOVIĆ Z.,
ČEVIZOVIĆ D.,
POPOVIĆ M.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
journal of microscopy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.569
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1365-2818
pISSN - 0022-2720
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2818.2008.02118.x
Subject(s) - photothermal therapy , microscopy , thermal , optics , materials science , photothermal effect , microscope , inverse problem , optical microscope , thermal analysis , nanotechnology , biological system , physics , scanning electron microscope , mathematics , thermodynamics , mathematical analysis , biology
Summary The calculation of photothermal response detected by a photothermal microscope is presented. By using a technique based on Green's functions and integral transforms, a model for laser‐induced temperature distribution functions has been derived. The mathematical method for solution of inverse problem is proposed. It suggests that photothermal microscopy, besides imaging subsurface of solids, has the potential for quantitative thermal analysis of varioussamples.