Scanning near-field optical microscope (SNOM) – using the scattered light through a sub-wavelenght aperture to form an image. (Illustration by Kristian Molhave, Opensource Handbook of Nanoscience and ...

Scanning Tunneling Microscopy is a subset of Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM), a group of techniques ... AFM and SNOM extend the capabilities of SPM to non-conductive materials and offer complementary ...

They employ the well-established beam deflection principle for distance control and feature a hollow pyramid with an aperture at its apex to acquire topographic and optical images simultaneously. Many ...

Designed to uncover new optical design principles, XLuminA focuses on advancing super-resolution microscopy. Acting as an AI-powered optics simulator, it autonomously explores all possible optical ...

This reduction in performance is due to fundamental physical principles and can have a severe impact on the accuracy of optical sensors ... and fluorescence microscopy, future work will focus ...