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Standard 3D printers enable super-resolution microscopy with custom optics under $1

Researchers have demonstrated that consumer-grade 3D printers and inexpensive materials can produce advanced optical ...
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No electrons needed: This optical microscope sees atoms at one-nanometer resolution

Microscopes have long been scientists’ eyes into the unseen, revealing everything from bustling cells to viruses and nanoscale structures. However, even the most powerful optical microscopes have been ...
BioTechniques

Visualizing the invisible: 5 recent breakthroughs in microscopy

Microscopy continues to transform the life sciences. Here are five recent breakthroughs made possible by the technique.

Scientists demonstrate low-cost, high-quality lenses for super-resolution microscopy

Researchers have shown that consumer-grade 3D printers and low-cost materials can be used to produce multi-element optical ...
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Pushing the resolution limits of scattering near-field optical microscopy

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 ...
Nanowerk

Diffraction Limit: The Fundamental Barrier in Optical Microscopy

What is the Diffraction Limit? The diffraction limit is a fundamental barrier in optical microscopy that sets the minimum size of features that can be resolved using conventional light microscopes. It ...
Science Daily

10,000 times faster than traditional methods: New computational framework automatically discovers experimental designs in microscopy

For human researchers, it takes many years of work to discover new super-resolution microscopy techniques. The number of possible optical configurations of a microscope -- for example, where to place ...