PFIR has several advantages over scanning near -
field optical microscopy (SNOM), the current method of measuring material properties, says Xu.
In 1988, he became a principal investigator at AT&T Bell Laboratories where he extended his thesis work on near -
field optical microscopy, the first method to break the diffraction barrier.
Not exact matches
Individual carbocyanine dye molecules in a sub-monolayer spread have been imaged with near -
field scanning
optical microscopy.
In near -
field scanning
optical microscopy, a light source or detector with dimensions less than the wavelength (λ) is placed in close proximity (λ / 50) to a sample to generate images with resolution better than the diffraction limit.
His work on the design of miniature
optical elements, «small lightweight instruments to be used for remote
microscopy inside human beings,» became the basis for the microscope attachment that makes CMaRS useful in the
field.
This procedure is similar to the conventional
optical microscopy with the picture showing the distribution of local magnetic
fields.
Michael Berndt (Diez, MPG)-- «
Optical Near -
fields in fluorescence
microscopy - Techniques to access information in the third dimension on the nanometer scale» (2010)
Here, he focused on the
field of
optical super-resolution
microscopy, specifically the biological applications of stimulated emission depletion (STED)
microscopy.
Although the resolution of
optical microscopy is limited to fractions of micrometres, developments in near -
field microscopy had pushed this limit to a few tens of nanometres.
The company's strategy is to expand the business into the life sciences arena, where nanotechnology and biotechnology intersect This involves the combination of core technologies in areas such as low temperature, high magnetic
field and ultra-high vacuum environments; Nuclear Magnetic Resonance; X-ray, electron, laser and
optical based metrology; atomic force
microscopy;
optical imaging; advanced growth, deposition and etching.
During the last 10 years he contributed primarily to the emerging
field of time and space resolved (photo) chemistry including scanning probe
microscopy,
optical microscopy and single molecule spectroscopy., He has published over 600 papers.