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Nature Materials 1, 83 - 85 (2002)
Materials characterization: Optics up close and personal
Daniel A. Higgins1
- Daniel A. Higgins is in the Department of Chemistry, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506, USA. e-mail: higgins@ksu.edu
Abstract
Why use a lens to build a light microscope when you can see better without one? State-of-the-art optical microscopy techniques that avoid the usual limitations associated with lenses are making waves in unexpected areas of materials science.
