Abbe Limit under attack.

Cosmo submitted, created time 6 months 6 days (www.kscitech.com)

For over a century, the Abbe Limit was considered to be a physical law. It's clear now that the ultimate resolution of a basic light microscope was never defined by the Abbe Limit and that the true resolution limit of a basic light microscope is far greater than what Abbe claimed. Why won't manufacturers produce microscopes that offer the full resolution capabilities?

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Diffracted Light Contrast: Improving the resolution of a basic light microscope be an order of magnitude

wbp24 submitted, created time 1 year 7 months (pantheon.yale.edu)

A simple illumination technique is shown to dramatically enhance the resolution of a basic light microscope. The question is raised as to whether the Abbe limit ever truly defined the ultimate resolution of a basic light microscope.

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