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Spot the hotspot

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Plasmonic hotspots — nanometre-sized crevices that permit the detection of single molecules — are too small to be imaged with conventional microscopes. They can now be probed using super-resolution fluorescence microscopy. See Letter p.385

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  1. Martin Moskovits is in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106–9510, USA. moskovits@chem.ucsb.edu,

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