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 ...
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 ...
Nature

Diffraction before destruction

For decades, crystallography has been the best technology for determining the three-dimensional structure of a biological molecule. But although structure determination has become fairly routine for ...