A microscope used to scan nanostructures can be dramatically enhanced by using a "superlens," reports an international team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry and the ...

One of the best known properties of light is that it diffracts, bending or spreading around objects that lie in its path. A familiar example is when a collimated beam of light passes through a small ...

"Since superlenses have demonstrated the capability of subdiffraction-limit imaging, they have been envisioned as a promising technology for potential nanophotolithography," Dr. Hong Liu, a scientists ...

The first direct near-field optical images from a superlens have been obtained by researchers in Germany and the US. Superlenses are made of negative refractive index metamaterials and this ...

Duke University researchers have demonstrated the feasibility of wireless power transfer using low-frequency magnetic fields over distances much larger than the size of the transmitter and receiver.

(Nanowerk News) Superlenses earned their superlative by being able to capture the "evanescent" light waves that blossom close to an illuminated surface and never travel far enough to be "seen" by a ...

The world of physics was abuzz last week because scientists had reported the first bulk negative index material that works with optical wavelengths. Although most popular press reports were ...

Durdu Guney, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Michigan Technological University, has taken a major step toward creating superlens that could use visible light to see ...

A superlens would let you see a virus in a drop of blood and open the door to better and cheaper electronics. It might, says one researcher, make ultra-high-resolution microscopes as commonplace as ...

A team of Chinese and British scientists have created the highest-resolution optical imaging lens to date. Since the 19th century, physicians have assumed that optical microscopes have a resolution ...

A modification to conventional white-light microscopy potentially boosting resolution towards 100 nanometers has been developed by a team from Bangor University and the University of Oxford. It ...