• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Realization of noncontact confocal optical microsphere imaging microscope
  • Contributor: Zhou, Yan; Hong, Minghui
  • imprint: Wiley, 2021
  • Published in: Microscopy Research and Technique
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1002/jemt.23793
  • ISSN: 1059-910X; 1097-0029
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  • Description: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>A novel noncontact confocal optical microsphere imaging microscope (COMIM) is proposed to achieve high contrast optical nano‐imaging at a high scanning speed. The developed setup obtains images with significantly higher contrast when compared with conventional bright‐field microsphere nano‐imaging, as well as with a commercial confocal laser scanning microscope (CLSM). With the image‐by‐image scanning scheme, COMIM takes only 11% time to complete a three‐dimensional (3D) scanning image than using a commercial CLSM, while still offers an outstanding resolving power for the nano‐features on the sample.</jats:p>