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: Did the Abbe Limit ever define the ultimate resolution of a basic light microscope?

Foster submitted, created time 1 year 6 months (www.microscopy-uk.org.uk)

Very high resolution images generated on a 20-year old, basic light microscope raise doubts as to the validity of the Abbe Limit. The images were made with a variation of the centuries-old oblique illumination technique.

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