Hackaday

Building A Microscope Without Lenses

It’s relatively easy to understand how optical microscopes work at low magnifications: one lens magnifies an image, the next magnifies the already-magnified image, and so on until it reaches the eye ...
Phys.org

Compact optical device achieves super-resolution imaging beyond the diffraction limit

Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) have unveiled a planar optical device that significantly enhances the capabilities of dark-field microscopy, achieving ...
EurekAlert!

Pioneering second-order nonlinear vibrational nanoscopy for interfacial molecular systems beyond the diffraction limit

Sum-frequency generation (SFG) is a powerful vibrational spectroscopy that can selectively probe molecular structures at surfaces and interfaces, but its spatial resolution has been limited to the ...
technologynetworks

Using a Single Atom as a “Camera” Could Push Boundaries of Microscopy

A research group led by Assistant Professor Takafumi Tomita and Professor Kenji Ohmori at the Institute for Molecular Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, has developed a new microscopy ...
Nanowerk

Single atom works as a camera to image light below the diffraction limit

A new atom camera uses one ultracold rubidium atom to map light intensity and polarization with spatial resolution below 100 nanometers. (Nanowerk News) Researchers in Japan have turned a single, ...
EurekAlert!

USTC develops compact device for super-resolution imaging beyond the diffraction limit

Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) led by Prof. ZHANG Douguo have unveiled a planar optical device that significantly enhances the capabilities of dark-field ...