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 Nano-FTIR absorption spectroscopy of molecular

fingerprints at 20 nm spatial resolution

Florian Huth1,2, Alexander Govyadinov1,Sergiu Amarie3, Wiwat Nuansing1, Fritz Keilmann4, and

Rainer Hillenbrand1,5 *

1
CIC nanoGUNE Consolider, 20018 Donostia – San Sebastián, Spain
2
Neaspec GmbH, 82152 Martinsried, Germany
3
Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, 85714 Garching, Germany
4
Department of Physics and CeNS, Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität München, 85714

Garching, Germany
5
IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, 48011 Bilbao, Spain

*corresponding author email: r.hillenbrand@nanogune.eu

SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL
 Relation between Im and .

In order to demonstrate the correlation between Im and we express both in terms of the
local dielectric function
 
 
 of the sample:

Im  ||
(S1)

  Im
  (S2)

where   . Equation S2 follows from      √
. In Fig. S1 we plot Im and as a

function of frequency  for PMMA, a typical weak molecular oscillator. To that end, we use real
and imaginary parts of
 obtained from ellipsometry measurements. The correspondence
between the spectra can be clearly seen.

Fig. S1. The spectra of (black) and Im (red) for a PMMA sample calculated from the real
and imaginary parts of
 obtained by ellipsometry. Both spectra are normalized to the peak
values at   1730cm .

Reconstruction of from the near-field absorption $%

From the measured near-field absorption $% we can obtain through the relation  & ⋅ Im,
||
where &  ()* , which directly follows from Eqs. (S1-S2). The factor C can, in principle, be
√ 
found directly by determining
from near-field measurements of +% as discussed below Eq. (3)
of the main article.

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