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Published online 23 July 2009 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2009.722
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Big claims for tiny lenses
Physicists balk at Nature paper saying lenses can see beyond the theoretical limit.
A set of little lenses is stoking a big debate amongst physicists. At issue is whether the tiny spheres are capable of beating the so-called diffraction limit, beyond which no lens can, in theory, work.
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