Nanotech Ping.
This is great, PeaceBeWithYou. It's exciting thinking about how this technology could impact future medical research applications.
Good. Hopefully it can be used to futher the study of prions (protiens) whose 'folds" just can't be seen at the moment.
As far as making things smaller, I can hardly see my cell phone as it is!
Xiang Zhang
Nicholas Fang
Dr.Cheng Sun
Yi Xiong
Dr. Hui Liu
Yongmin Liu
Junyu Mai
Sheng Wang
Hyesog Lee
See the trend here?
UC Berkeley Xlab:
http://xlab.me.berkeley.edu/ http://xlab.me.berkeley.edu/Publications/Publications/Science-superlens.pdf
It's all a scam just like the internet. Buy gold. /sarc
Hooray for the ONR!
Dammit, and I was just weeks away from completing my own superlens last year, when the dog knocked over my workbench and ruined everything. Set me back months. Sigh.
A good light microscope can resolve things at the 0.2 micrometer range. I would love to have one of these lens things adapted to my Zeiss. I could then watch live bacteria and their flagella and maybe even see pili. Plus some viruses would also become visible. I hope this thing starts a new microscope revolution. There hasn't been a significant improvement in light microscopy in over a hundred years.
Here is the link to the actual Science articel from Prof. Zhang's website.
http://xlab.me.berkeley.edu/Publications/Publications/Science-superlens.pdf
This is very interesting to me becasue I used similar physics in my PhD thesis, but with an entirely different application. However, the effavecent wave decays exponentially, on the nanometer scale, from the surface of the material host to the surface plasmon resonance, so I doubt if this application will be useful in the future to astronomy as the article suggests. Otherwise, it is very exciting and could have a lot of breaktrhoughs for optical microscopy. I am curious if a metal island film would give a stronger throughput than the continuous film in the paper.
Blast from the Past.