The wave nature of light manifests itself in diffraction, which hampers attempts to determine the location of molecules. Clever use of microscopic techniques might now be circumventing the 'diffraction limit'.
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Stelzer, E. Beyond the diffraction limit?. Nature 417, 806–807 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/417806a
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