Fiber-optic probe for seeing molecular bonds

humy

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10 Jun 19 17:45

humy

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10 Jun 19 17:45

https://phys.org/news/2019-06-fiber-optic-probe-molecular-bonds.html

sonhouse

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10 Jun 19 17:51

@humy said
https://phys.org/news/2019-06-fiber-optic-probe-molecular-bonds.html

Interesting technology. 1 nanometer resolution, 10 angstroms! I wonder if they can get even better resolution using the same technique only with UV light? Maybe get one ANGSTROM resolution.....

humy

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11 Jun 19 16:55

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@sonhouse said
I wonder if they can get even better resolution using the same technique only with UV light? Maybe get one ANGSTROM resolution.....

Yes, indeed it begs that obvious question.
Pity I think it probably wouldn't be practical to take that to yet another level of resolution by using x-rays (because x-rays generally a lot harder to control) but just maybe I could be wrong! I hope I would be wrong about that because that would be nice. Might be worth exploring that also.