Advantages of microsphere-assisted super-resolution imaging technique over solid immersion lens and confocal microscopies

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Darafsheh, Arash ^a,b,c   Limberopoulos, Nicholaos I ^b   Derov, John S ^b   Walker, Dennis E ^b   Astratov, Vasily N ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MICROSPHERES; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE;

AIR ENVIRONMENT; DEEP UV; FEATURE SIZES; HIGH INDEX; INDEX CONTRASTS; SOLID IMMERSION LENS; SUPER RESOLUTION IMAGING; WORKING DISTANCES;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 84902294889     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4864760     Document Type: Article

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