Table 1 Comparison of different experimental techniques for PhP measurements

From: Observation of the nonanalytic behavior of optical phonons in monolayer hexagonal boron nitride

 

Raman

s-SNOM

STEM-EELS

2D-HREELS

Detection type

Energy and momentum transfer in momentum-space

Standing wave in real-space

Standing wave in real-space

Energy and momentum transfer in momentum-space

Spatial resolution

~30 μm60

~10 nm19

~0.2 nm35

~1 mm

Momentum resolution

~10−7 Å−1 (ref. 47)

Better than 10−7 Å−1 (ref. 18)a

Better than 10−7 Å−1 (ref. 35)a

10−3 Å−1

Energy resolution

~0.1 meV47

~10−2 meV61

5.5 meV44

~1 meV

Momentum range

0 ≤ q ≤ 10−3 Å−1 (ref. 47)

0 < q ≤ 10−3 Å−1 (ref. 19)

0 < q ≤ 10−2 Å−1 (ref. 35)

0 ≤ q ≤ 2 Å−1

  1. aThe momentum resolution of s-SNOM and STEM-EELS are converted from the distributions of standing waves in real space. These values are sample dependent. Here, we cite the typical values from the measurements of h-BN.