Microscope without lenses

2007/03/01 Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

• Fisika

X-ray microscopes are very appropriate to closely observe life, but the construction of lenses that increase X-ray images is technologically very difficult. For this problem, physicists at Sheffield University in England have proposed a solution: making microscopes without lenses; instead of imaging lenses, you can use your own X-ray diffraction, but not a pattern, but several performed simultaneously. The resolution capacity of this technique is, in addition, equal to the wavelength of the X-rays.