Microspheres placed on a specimen in an interference microscope setup enable topographic measurements of structures below the physical resolution limit. Credit: Journal of Optical Microsystems (2022).

Researchers have developed a new microscope that can visualize the optical response of surfaces at an unprecedented spatial resolution of one nanometer. This paves the way for optical microscopy of ...

Super-resolution optical imaging encompasses a suite of methodologies that transcend the classical diffraction limit of light to resolve features at the nanoscale. Early approaches relied on ...

Researchers achieved nanometer-scale resolution without requiring a dark state, expanding super-resolution imaging to non-fluorescent molecules and non-optical waves. The findings published in Nature ...

Scientists achieve optical measurements at atomic scales using quantum electron tunneling, surpassing conventional microscopy limits by nearly 100,000 times with standard lasers. (Nanowerk News) From ...

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 ...