Stimulated emission depletion microscopy on lithographic nanostructures
Stimulated emission depletion microscopy on lithographic nanostructures is a scholarly work by Stefan Hell, Tim Salditt, and Volker Westphal, published in 2005 in ''Journal of Physics B''. The main subjects of the publication include fluorescence quenching, nanotechnology, resolution, fluorescence, fluorescence microscope, super-resolution microscopy, nanostructure, materials science, cryogenic electron microscopy, optics, lithography, optoelectronics, optical microscope, microscopy, diffraction, STED microscopy, stimulated emission, and laser. Stimulated emission, predicted by Albert Einstein in 1917, not only prepared the grounds for the invention of the laser, but also for a far-field fluorescence microscopy with diffraction-unlimited resolution.