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Superlensing microscope objective lens

Yan, Bing, Wang, Zengbo, Parker, Alan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9302-1761, Lai, Yukun ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2094-5680, Thomas, John P., Yue, Liyang and Monks, James N. 2017. Superlensing microscope objective lens. Applied Optics 56 (11) , pp. 3142-3147. 10.1364/AO.56.003142

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Abstract

Conventional microscope objective lenses are diffraction limited; they cannot resolve subdiffraction features of a size smaller than 250–300 nm under white lighting condition. New innovations are required to overcome this limitation. In this paper, we propose and demonstrate a new superlensing objective lens that possesses a resolution of 100 nm, which is a two-times resolution improvement over conventional objectives. This is accomplished by integrating a conventional microscope objective lens with a superlensing microsphere lens using a customized lens adaptor. The new objective lens was successfully demonstrated for label-free super-resolution imaging of 100 nm features in engineering and biological samples, including a Blu-ray disk sample and adenoviruses. Our work opens a new door to develop a generic optical superlens, which may transform the field of optical microscopy and imaging.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Computer Science & Informatics
Medicine
Publisher: Optical Society of America
ISSN: 0003-6935
Funders: Welsh Crucible
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Date of First Compliant Deposit: 13 March 2017
Date of Acceptance: 13 March 2017
Last Modified: 05 May 2023 04:53
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/98958

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