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Superlensing microscope objective lens. / Yan, Bing; Wang, Zengbo; Parker, Alan et al.
In: Applied Optics, Vol. 56, No. 11, 07.04.2017, p. 3142.

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Yan, B, Wang, Z, Parker, A, Lai, Y, Prabhakar, JT, Yue, L & Monks, J 2017, 'Superlensing microscope objective lens', Applied Optics, vol. 56, no. 11, pp. 3142. https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.56.003142

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Yan, B., Wang, Z., Parker, A., Lai, Y., Prabhakar, J. T., Yue, L., & Monks, J. (2017). Superlensing microscope objective lens. Applied Optics, 56(11), 3142. https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.56.003142

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Yan B, Wang Z, Parker A, Lai Y, Prabhakar JT, Yue L, Monks J. 2017. Superlensing microscope objective lens. Applied Optics. 56(11):3142. https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.56.003142

MLA

Yan, Bing et al. "Superlensing microscope objective lens". Applied Optics. 2017, 56(11). 3142. https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.56.003142

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Yan B, Wang Z, Parker A, Lai Y, Prabhakar JT, Yue L et al. Superlensing microscope objective lens. Applied Optics. 2017 Apr 7;56(11):3142. Epub 2017 Mar 13. doi: 10.1364/AO.56.003142

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Yan, Bing ; Wang, Zengbo ; Parker, Alan et al. / Superlensing microscope objective lens. In: Applied Optics. 2017 ; Vol. 56, No. 11. pp. 3142.

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TY - JOUR

T1 - Superlensing microscope objective lens

AU - Yan, Bing

AU - Wang, Zengbo

AU - Parker, Alan

AU - Lai, Yukun

AU - Prabhakar, John Thomas

AU - Yue, Liyang

AU - Monks, James

N1 - © 2017 Optical Society of America]. One print or electronic copy may be made for personal use only. Systematic reproduction and distribution, duplication of any material in this paper for a fee or for commercial purposes, or modifications of the content of this paper are prohibited.

PY - 2017/4/7

Y1 - 2017/4/7

N2 - Conventional microscope objective lenses are diffraction limited; they cannot resolve subdiffraction features of a size smaller than 250–300 nm under white lighting condition. New innovations are required to overcome this limitation. In this paper, we propose and demonstrate a new superlensing objective lens that possesses a resolution of 100 nm, which is a two-times resolution improvement over conventional objectives. This is accomplished by integrating a conventional microscope objective lens with a superlensing microsphere lens using a customized lens adaptor. The new objective lens was successfully demonstrated for label-free super-resolution imaging of 100 nm features in engineering and biological samples, including a Blu-ray disk sample and adenoviruses. Our work opens a new door to develop a generic optical superlens, which may transform the field of optical microscopy and imaging.

AB - Conventional microscope objective lenses are diffraction limited; they cannot resolve subdiffraction features of a size smaller than 250–300 nm under white lighting condition. New innovations are required to overcome this limitation. In this paper, we propose and demonstrate a new superlensing objective lens that possesses a resolution of 100 nm, which is a two-times resolution improvement over conventional objectives. This is accomplished by integrating a conventional microscope objective lens with a superlensing microsphere lens using a customized lens adaptor. The new objective lens was successfully demonstrated for label-free super-resolution imaging of 100 nm features in engineering and biological samples, including a Blu-ray disk sample and adenoviruses. Our work opens a new door to develop a generic optical superlens, which may transform the field of optical microscopy and imaging.

U2 - 10.1364/AO.56.003142

DO - 10.1364/AO.56.003142

M3 - Article

VL - 56

SP - 3142

JO - Applied Optics

JF - Applied Optics

SN - 1559-128X

IS - 11

ER -