Overview
- Editors:
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Vasily Astratov
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University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, USA
- Combines the advances in super-resolution microscopy in physics and biomedical optics for nanoscale imaging
- Describes label-free super-resolution microscopy
- Introduces also the important topic super-resolved fluorescence microscopy
- Presents the applications of label-free super-resolution imaging
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-xxii
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- Chenfei Hu, Gabriel Popescu
Pages 1-24
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- Richard W. Taylor, Vahid Sandoghdar
Pages 25-65
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- Bertrand Simon, Olivier Haeberlé
Pages 85-112
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- Nancy Rahbany, Ignacio Izeddin, Valentina Krachmalnicoff, Rémi Carminati, Gilles Tessier, Yannick De Wilde
Pages 113-136
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- Paolo Bianchini, Giulia Zanini, Alberto Diaspro
Pages 171-193
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- Hadar Pinhas, Yossef Danan, Amihai Meiri, Omer Wagner, Asaf Shahmoon, Tali Ilovitsh et al.
Pages 213-237
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- Tushar C. Jagadale, Shi-Wei Chu
Pages 239-259
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- Omer Tzang, Dror Hershkovitz, Ori Cheshnovsky
Pages 261-287
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- Mikko J. Huttunen, Antti Kiviniemi
Pages 289-312
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- Igor I. Smolyaninov, Vera N. Smolyaninova
Pages 313-343
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- Emroz Khan, Evgenii Narimanov
Pages 345-369
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- Zengbo Wang, Boris Luk’yanchuk
Pages 371-406
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- Alexey V. Maslov, Vasily N. Astratov
Pages 407-441
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- Stephane Perrin, Sylvain Lecler, Paul Montgomery
Pages 443-469
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Back Matter
Pages 471-487
About this book
This book presents the advances in super-resolution microscopy in physics and biomedical optics for nanoscale imaging. In the last decade, super-resolved fluorescence imaging has opened new horizons in improving the resolution of optical microscopes far beyond the classical diffraction limit, leading to the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2014. This book represents the first comprehensive review of a different type of super-resolved microscopy, which does not rely on using fluorescent markers. Such label-free super-resolution microscopy enables potentially even broader applications in life sciences and nanoscale imaging, but is much more challenging and it is based on different physical concepts and approaches. A unique feature of this book is that it combines insights into mechanisms of label-free super-resolution with a vast range of applications from fast imaging of living cells to inorganic nanostructures. This book can be used by researchers in biological and medical physics. Due to its logically organizational structure, it can be also used as a teaching tool in graduate and upper-division undergraduate-level courses devoted to super-resolved microscopy, nanoscale imaging, microscopy instrumentation, and biomedical imaging.
Reviews
“A thorough and cutting-edge reference of the modern advances in microscopy, the book is valuable reading for researchers and physicists.” (Silvano Donati, Optics & Photonics News, March 19, 2020)
Editors and Affiliations
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University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, USA
Vasily Astratov
About the editor
Vasily N. Astratov has been professor of Physics and Optical Science at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte since 2002. In 1986, he received his Ph.D. degree from the A.F. Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute in Russia. Since joining UNC-Charlotte in 2002, his research has been devoted to a new field of study which he has named "microspherical photonics" to describe the applications of dielectric microspheres in super-resolution microscopy, resonant light forces, photonic nanojets, and photonic molecules. In his lab, he proposed and developed the methods of super-resolution imaging based on using high-index dielectric microspheres immersed in liquids or in elastomeric slabs. His methods are widely used by many groups worldwide for imaging subcellular structures, viruses, and nanoplasmonic structures. He also observed giant light forces exerted on microspheres under resonant conditions with their whispering gallery modes. This observation builds upon earlier pioneering work of Arthur Ashkin and Joseph M. Dziedzic on optical forces exerted on microdroplets. Previously, in the mid-1990s he pioneered studies of synthetic opals as novel three-dimensional photonic crystals for visible light. He has authored and co-authored about 180 research publications and 15 patents which have been cited more than 6000 times.
