The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014: super-resolved fluorescence microscopy

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  • Jordi Hernando Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Química

Keywords:

Super-resolved fluorescence microscopy, optical microscopy, single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy.

Abstract

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014 has been awarded to physicists Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell and William E. Moerner for their contributions to the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy, a new group of techniques that allow the optical characterization of matter to be brought down to the nanometre scale. This article reviews the fundamentals of this type of microscopy, as well as the main discoveries made by the Nobel laureates in this area.

Keywords: Super-resolved fluorescence microscopy, optical microscopy, single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy.

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No. 14 (2015)

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