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Super-Resolution Imaging with Patchy Microspheres

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Super-Resolution Imaging with Patchy Microspheres. / Shang, Qingqing; Tang, Fen; Yu, Lingya et al.
In: Photonics, Vol. 8, 513, 15.11.2021.

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Shang, Q, Tang, F, Yu, L, Oubaha, H, Caina, D, Yang, S, Melinte, S, Zuo, C, Wang, J & Ye, R 2021, 'Super-Resolution Imaging with Patchy Microspheres', Photonics, vol. 8, 513. https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics8110513

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Shang, Q., Tang, F., Yu, L., Oubaha, H., Caina, D., Yang, S., Melinte, S., Zuo, C., Wang, J., & Ye, R. (2021). Super-Resolution Imaging with Patchy Microspheres. Photonics, 8, Article 513. https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics8110513

CBE

Shang Q, Tang F, Yu L, Oubaha H, Caina D, Yang S, Melinte S, Zuo C, Wang J, Ye R. 2021. Super-Resolution Imaging with Patchy Microspheres. Photonics. 8:Article 513. https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics8110513

MLA

Shang, Qingqing et al. "Super-Resolution Imaging with Patchy Microspheres". Photonics. 2021. 8. https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics8110513

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Shang Q, Tang F, Yu L, Oubaha H, Caina D, Yang S et al. Super-Resolution Imaging with Patchy Microspheres. Photonics. 2021 Nov 15;8:513. doi: 10.3390/photonics8110513

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Shang, Qingqing ; Tang, Fen ; Yu, Lingya et al. / Super-Resolution Imaging with Patchy Microspheres. In: Photonics. 2021 ; Vol. 8.

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TY - JOUR

T1 - Super-Resolution Imaging with Patchy Microspheres

AU - Shang, Qingqing

AU - Tang, Fen

AU - Yu, Lingya

AU - Oubaha, Hamid

AU - Caina, Darwin

AU - Yang, Songlin

AU - Melinte, Sorin

AU - Zuo, Chao

AU - Wang, James

AU - Ye, Ran

PY - 2021/11/15

Y1 - 2021/11/15

N2 - The diffraction limit is a fundamental barrier in optical microscopy, which restricts the smallest resolvable feature size of a microscopic system. Microsphere-based microscopy has proven to be a promising tool for challenging the diffraction limit. Nevertheless, the microspheres have a lowimaging contrast in air, which hinders the application of this technique. In this work, we demonstratethat this challenge can be effectively overcome by using partially Ag-plated microspheres. The deposited Ag film acts as an aperture stop that blocks a portion of the incident beam, forming a photonic hook and an oblique near-field illumination. Such a photonic hook significantly enhanced the imaging contrast of the system, as experimentally verified by imaging the Blu-ray disc surface and colloidal particle arrays

AB - The diffraction limit is a fundamental barrier in optical microscopy, which restricts the smallest resolvable feature size of a microscopic system. Microsphere-based microscopy has proven to be a promising tool for challenging the diffraction limit. Nevertheless, the microspheres have a lowimaging contrast in air, which hinders the application of this technique. In this work, we demonstratethat this challenge can be effectively overcome by using partially Ag-plated microspheres. The deposited Ag film acts as an aperture stop that blocks a portion of the incident beam, forming a photonic hook and an oblique near-field illumination. Such a photonic hook significantly enhanced the imaging contrast of the system, as experimentally verified by imaging the Blu-ray disc surface and colloidal particle arrays

U2 - 10.3390/photonics8110513

DO - 10.3390/photonics8110513

M3 - Article

VL - 8

JO - Photonics

JF - Photonics

SN - 2304-6732

M1 - 513

ER -