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Imaging with the Photon Scanning-Tunneling Microscope

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

Thomas L. Ferrell ,
Fabrice Meriaudeau ,
Ali Passian ,
Jean-Pierre Goudonnet  and
Andrew Wig
Thomas L. Ferrell
Affiliation:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Fabrice Meriaudeau
Affiliation:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Ali Passian
Affiliation:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Jean-Pierre Goudonnet
Affiliation:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Andrew Wig
Affiliation:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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The use of traditional optics in microscopy has a well-known resolution barrier first presented by Lord Rayleigh. This is the "Rayleigh diffraction limit." In the usual textbook example, the overlapping diffraction rings from two small objects are set so that the central maximum of one pattern falls on the first minimum of the second, The barrier limits the resolution of conventional microscopes to a significant fraction of the wavelength of light.

In the past decade two methods were discovered for surpassing the Rayleigh diffraction barrier. The first was actually an independent rediscovery by D. Pohl er al. of a concept originally proposed by Synge (in a 1928 paper reviewed by Albert Einstein),

Type
Research Article
Information
Microscopy Today , Volume 7 , Issue 4 , May 1999 , pp. 14 - 17
Copyright
Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 1999

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