The new lens (top) gathers information about a nanoscale object and then passes it on to a conventional lens.
Credit: XiangZhang
New publications, experiments and breakthroughs in nanotechnology--and what they mean.
Super Lens
New nanostructured materials break the old limits of optical lenses
Source: "Far-Field Optical Hyperlens Magnifying Sub-Diffraction-Limited Objects"
Xiang Zhang et al.
Science 315: 1686
Results: Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have developed a lens that can resolve details too small for conventional optical microscopes. Using it, they could distinguish two parallel lines 130 nanometers apart; seen through a conventional microscope, the lines looked like a single, thick line.
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