It will just become blurry. The resolution of a light microscope is around 0.2 μm, or 200 nm. This means that it cannot distinguish two points closer than 200 nm. One nm, or nanometre ...

Electron microscopes pass beams of electrons through a specimen and have a much greater resolution than a light microscope.

Scientists in Luxembourg combine an ultra powerful microscope with a super resolution analysis instrument to create a device that can produce images 100,000 times smaller than the width of a human ...

Stochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy (STORM) reconstructs a super-resolution fluorescence image by combining precise localization information for individual fluorophores in complex fluorescent ...

SNOM, in particular, combines the high-resolution capabilities of SPM with the rich spectroscopic information provided by optical microscopy, enabling detailed studies of optical properties at the ...

Since the 1800s and the invention of the compound light microscope, there have only been a few major jumps in resolution to see different length scales: from bacteria and cells, to viruses and ...