Thanks to the diffraction limit, scientists could use the light microscope to see cells but not the proteins inside them or a ...

The optical light microscope MeF4M is used for examination of flat surfaces and for examination of materiallographic and metallographic sections. This research into the microstructure of materials. In ...

Researchers analyze the picoantenna-like directional behaviour of tunnel junctions formed by surface defects at the atomic ...

Researchers from Madrid explain a phenomenon that allows the direction of light emission to be controlled at the atomic scale ...

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Optical sensors are a broad class of device for detecting light intensity ... A photonic force microscope has been developed with a trapped lanthanide-doped crystal detecting forces as small ...

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Huan Zhao has wanted to learn about the world around him for as long as he can remember. Now, his work helps push the limits ...

1800s - the optical quality of lenses increased and the microscopes are similar to the ones we use today. Throughout their development, the magnification of light microscopes has increased ...

In a small lab on the second floor of the Center for Natural Sciences, students in the Department of Physics and Astronomy ...

According to Alfred Nobel's will, the Nobel Prize in Physics was to go to "the person who shall have made the most important ...