Why can’t light microscopes see inside cells?
In the late 1870s and early 1880s, a German engineer and physicist named Ernst Karl Abbe found a formula that connected the ...
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Lithography gets extreme
This can be achieved using optical and processing tricks to increase the numerical aperture of the projection lens in the system, or by reducing the wavelength of the light used. Since the 1980s ...
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Taiwan’s TSMC to receive ASML’s advanced chipmaking machines this year
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is slated to receive its first shipment of ASML’s ...
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Beyond the diffraction limit
This meant that a microscope could not resolve two objects located closer than λ/2NA, where λ is the wavelength of light and NA is the numerical aperture of the imaging lens. This diffraction ...