WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A QUANTUM DOT LOOKS IN A MIRROR?
(March 19, 2015) The
2014 chemistry Nobel Prize recognized important microscopy research that
enabled greatly improved spatial resolution. This innovation, resulting in
nanometer resolution, was made possible by making the source (the emitter) of
the illumination quite small and by
moving it quite close to the object being imaged. One problem with this approach is that in
such proximity, the emitter and object can interact with each other, blurring
the resulting image. Now, a new JQI
study has shown how to sharpen nanoscale microscopy (nanoscopy) even more by
better locating the exact position of the light source.