Microscopy & Microtechniques
Latest microscopy technique 'lights up' the needle in a haystack
Nov 11 2010
AFM is itself among some of the latest microscopy methods to go into common usage, offering resolutions 1,000 times better than optical techniques, says NIST.
However, this creates the problem of physically locating the features that are pictured, when they may measure 100 sq nm against the backdrop of an entire human-scale microscope stage.
Using laser optics, the researchers claim to have developed a method akin to "the difference between finding the coffee table in a darkened room either by walking around until you fall over it, or using a flashlight".
Their solution is to scan the surface of the sample with the same laser used in the AFM imaging, providing a common frame of reference that can locate features to within 40 nm.
JILA was devised in 1961-2 and originally named the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, a moniker dropped in 1994 when the organisation refocused on molecular and atomic physics.
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