Subnanometer Perfection
Optics & Photonics Focus
Volume 11 Story 2 - 20/10/2010

A subnanometer ruler for fluorescence

Different super-resolution imaging techniques based on fluorescence have been successful in measuring distances between fluorescent molecules that are only a few nanometers apart. By carefully characterizing systematic errors, it is possible to increase the resolution of these techniques to less than a nanometer.
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A subnanometer ruler for fluorescence. Different super-resolution imaging techniques based on fluorescence have been successful in measuring distances between fluorescent molecules that are only a few nanometers apart. By carefully characterizing systematic errors, it is possible to increase the resolution of these techniques to less than a nanometer.