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How do these tiny lenses work?

JUL 24, 2009

DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.023536

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Nature News : A set of little lenses is stoking a big debate amongst physicists. At issue is whether the tiny spheres are capable of beating the so-called diffraction limit, beyond which no lens can, in theory, work.

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