Coherent Four-Fold Super-Resolution Imaging with Composite Photonic–Plasmonic Structured Illumination

Cover by Antonio I. Fernández-Domínguez published in ACS Photonics
Cover by Antonio I. Fernández-Domínguez published in ACS Photonics

Cover: published in ACS Photonics by Antonio I. Fernández-Domínguez, IFIMAC researcher.

Super-resolution imaging techniques have enhanced our ability to image objects at the nanoscale by overcoming many of the constraints inherently imposed by diffraction-limit optical microscopy. In this Article, a new super-resolution scheme is presented based on composite photonic–plasmonic structure illumination with a theoretical spatial resolution of λ/8. The cover shows theoretical contour plots of the Fourier optics images of a V-shaped object under standard diffraction-limited microscopy (left) and the proposed composite structured illumination microscopy (right). [Full article]