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Superlens reveals hidden nanostructures.(OPTICAL)
Advanced Ceramics Report, November, 2006
Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Germany, and the University of Texas at Austin, USA, have developed a microscope fitted with a "superlens"--a lens capable of creating images of objects smaller than the wavelength of light.
The lens is made of a thin film of silicon carbide (SiC) sandwiched between two layers of silicon oxide (SiO). This is the first time a superlens has enabled the direct near-field optical images.
In their research work, the team of scientists produced images of holes in a gold film that were smaller than a wavelength of light, about 500 nm in diameter, by equipping a near-field scanning optical microscope with a newly fabricated superlens.
The lens was fabricated at the University of Texas, using...
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