Re: Physicists have built a lens that can image nano-scale objects using visible light

mmeron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: 
In article <dct330$2r0$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Andy Resnick <andy.resnick@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Sam Wormley wrote:


Superlens breaks optical barrier (Aug 3)
 http://physicsweb.org/article/world/18/8/4

  Physicists have built a lens that can image nano-scale objects using
  visible light



It's grantology, to borrow a term.  From the article:

"But superlensing does come at a cost... In other words, to image the near-field it is necessary to remain in the near-field, otherwise those components of light that contain the sub-wavelength spatial details decay to the point that they cannot be recovered."


Yes, pure grantology. I'm afraid that Sam is too easily taken in by fluff.

Oh, that's not fair to Sam- he's providing a reasonably useful service. It's Physics World that originally hyped the "science", anyway.

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Andrew Resnick, Ph.D.
Department of Physiology and Biophysics
Case Western Reserve University
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