A super-oscillatory lens optical microscope for subwavelength imaging

Nature Materials

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 432-435

  Rogers, Edward T F ^a   Lindberg, Jari ^b   Roy, Tapashree ^a   Savo, Salvatore ^a   Chad, John E ^a   Dennis, Mark R ^b   Zheludev, Nikolay I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; EVANESCENT FIELDS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIGHT; LUMINESCENCE; MICROSCOPES; OPTICAL IMAGE STORAGE; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER;

BINARY AMPLITUDE MASK; CONVENTIONAL INSTRUMENTS; DIFFRACTION LIMITS; NANO-STRUCTURED; OPTICAL IMAGING; PHYSICAL LIMITS; SUBWAVELENGTH IMAGING; SUPER RESOLUTION;

LENSES;

EID: 84860142848     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3280     Document Type: Article

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