Near-field scanning optical microscopy
Microscopía óptica de barrido de campo cercano
- Date
- 1984 · confidence low
- Place
- Zurich, Switzerland
- Credited to
- Dieter Pohl
- Field
- Communication
What it is
A microscopy technique that overcomes the conventional optical resolution limit by exploiting evanescent waves generated by passing light through an aperture smaller than the wavelength, developed by Dieter Pohl.
What it led to
- overcoming the diffraction limit in optical microscopy
- applications in the study of nanostructures and surfaces
- influence on later superresolution techniques such as Eric Betzig's