It’s relatively easy to understand how optical microscopes work at low magnifications: one lens magnifies an image, the next magnifies the already-magnified image, and so on until it reaches the eye ...

Attempts to break the diffraction limit with 'super lenses' have all hit the hurdle of extreme visual losses. Now physicists have shown a new pathway to achieve superlensing with minimal losses, ...

Infrared (IR) microscopy is a powerful analytical technique for the investigation of chemically and spatially inhomogeneous samples in point-and-shoot scenarios, via scanning spectroscopy approaches, ...

Since the first microscope was invented in 1595 by a Dutch father-son team Hans and Zacharias Janssen 1, optical objectives have developed rapidly with improved performance in aberration correction, ...

To unravel the complexities of biological phenomena, scientists have long relied on microscopy to visualize the intricate details of their specimens, including tissue architecture, cell morphology, ...

Standard optical microscopes have surrendered their once dominant position at the forefront of scientific research to more advanced tools. As we delve deeper into the microscopic world, photons just ...