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Optical Microsphere Nano-Imaging:Progress and Challenges

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The optical diffraction effect imposes a radical obstacle preventing conventional optical microscopes from achieving an imaging resolution beyond the Abbe diffraction limit and thereby restricting their usage in a multitude of nanoscale applications.Over the past decade,the optical microsphere nano-imaging technique has been demonstrated to be a cost-effective solution for overcoming the diffraction limit and has achieved an imaging resolution of up to about λ/6-λ/8 in a real-time and label-free manner,making it highly competitive among numerous super-resolution imaging technologies.In this review,we summarize the underlying nano-imaging mechanisms of the microsphere nanoscope and key advancements aimed at imaging performance enhancement:first,to change the working environment or modify the peripheral hardware of a single microsphere nanoscope at the system level;second,to compose the microsphere compound lens;and third,to engineer the geometry or ingredients of micro-spheres.We also analyze challenges yet to be overcome in optical microsphere nano-imaging,followed by an outlook of this technique.

MicrosphereNano-imagingVirtual imagingMicrosphere compound lensEngineered microsphere

Guangxing Wu、Minghui Hong

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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,National University of Singapore,Singapore 117576,Singapore

Pen-Tung Sah Institute of Micro-Nano Science and Technology,Xiamen University,Xiamen 361005,China

Innovation Laboratory for Sciences and Technologies of Energy Materials of Fujian Province(IKKEM),Xiamen 361005,China

Innovation Laboratory for Sciences and Technologies of Energy Materials of Fujian Province Human Resource Training Project

HRTP-[2022]-53

2024

工程(英文)

工程(英文)

CSTPCDEI
ISSN:2095-8099
年,卷(期):2024.36(5)