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Application of Coated Glass Slides in Super-resolution Microscopy

A microscopic technology, a technology of coated glass slides, applied in the direction of optical components, instruments, optics, etc., can solve the problems of small field of view, technical difficulty, and difficulty in realizing live cell imaging, etc.

Active Publication Date: 2019-02-05
ZHEJIANG UNIV
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However, most of them are faced with limitations such as high cost and small field of view.
The difficulty of STED microscopy lies in the selection of the beam wavelength and the synchronous adjustment of the two pulses, which is technically difficult; while the STORM technology requires a long imaging time and is difficult to achieve live cell imaging

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Embodiment 1

[0037] Such as figure 1 The shown schematic diagram of micro-nano structure ZJU observed on a thin-film slide, including a silicon-based substrate 11, a 200nm-thick Al2O3 optical film 12 plated on the silicon-based substrate, and a micro-nano structure (ZJU) 14 with a period of about 170nm , and an annular micro-nano light source 13 surrounding the micro-nano structure. Among them, the silicon-based substrate adopts a silicon-based substrate with a silicon oxide layer thickness of 280nm. After cleaning the substrate, a 200nm aluminum oxide optical film is plated on the silicon-based substrate by thermal evaporation. Afterwards, micro-nano structures with a depth of about 100nm and a period of about 170nm were prepared by etching on the aluminum oxide film using focused ion beam micro-nano processing technology. In the experiment, the micro-nano light source adopts the semiconductor nanowire lighting method, and through the micro-nano operation, the semiconductor nanowire is c...

Embodiment 2

[0039] Such as figure 2 The shown schematic diagram of observing the stepped micro-nano structure on a thin-film glass slide adopts the same substrate and optical film parameters as in Embodiment 1, including a silicon-based substrate 21 and an aluminum oxide optical film 22 . The stepped micro-nano structure 24 was etched on aluminum oxide by focused ion beam micro-nano processing technology. The inner period of a single double-channel structure is about 170nm, and the distance between the double-channel structures is about 6um. The micro-nano light source Semiconductor nanowires 23 parallel to the microstructure are used. The SEM images of the etched microstructure are shown in Figure 8(a) and Figure 8(b), from the experimental effect diagram Figure 5 , it can be seen that the glass slide structure can achieve a field of view observation range of more than 30um on one side.

Embodiment 3

[0041] Such as Figure three The schematic diagram of the dual-channel structure observed in the manner of multi-layer coating is shown, including a silicon-based substrate 31, an optical film with a lower refractive index (such as MgF 2 , YbF 3 、LaF 3 , SrF 3 , NdF 3 etc.) 32, optical films with higher refractive index (such as Al 2 o 3 、TiO 2 、 Ta 2 o 5 and ZrO 2 etc.) 33, and then use focused ion beam micro-nano processing technology to prepare micro-nano structures on high refractive index films, such as double-channel microstructures 35, or other structures. Micro-nano samples can also be placed on high refractive index films. Afterwards, the micro-nano optical fiber 34 prepared by tapering is placed on a high-refractive-index film at a certain distance from the micro-nano structure or the sample. The external light is coupled into the high refractive index film by micro-nano fiber, and the micro-nano structure or sample is optically imaged by CCD.

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Abstract

The invention discloses an application of a coated slide on super-resolution microscopy, comprising the steps as follows: (1) coating a substrate with an optical film, and placing a micro-nano sample on the optical film or preparing a micro-nano structure on the optical film; (2) placing a micro-nano light source, and coupling the evanescent field of the micro-nano light source into the optical film to make the transmitted evanescent field act on the micro-nano sample or the micro-nano structure, or, directly coupling an external light field into the waveguide of the optical film for transmission and making the external light field interact with the micro-nano sample or the micro-nano structure in the process of transmission; and (3) getting an optical image of the micro-nano structure or the micro-nano sample through a microscope, and making a spectrum analysis of the optical image and reconstructing the optical image.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to the field of thin films and super-resolution microscopy, in particular to the application of a coated glass slide in the direction of super-resolution microscopy. Background technique [0002] Optical microscopes have an Abbe diffraction limit theory due to the limited beam diameter and limited lens size (λ is the wavelength of the illumination light used, and NA is the numerical aperture of the microscope objective lens used). According to this theory, in the visible light band, the ultimate resolution of an optical microscope is limited to around 200 nanometers. However, the development of materials, biology, medicine and other fields requires related equipment to achieve smaller resolution capabilities, so as to be able to observe smaller samples. Therefore, there is a need for a new technology that can break through the conventional diffraction limit and is universally applicable to samples to achieve super-resolution mi...

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Patent Type & Authority Patents(China)
IPC IPC(8): G02B1/10
CPCG02B1/10
Inventor 杨青庞陈雷刘小威徐鹏飞沈伟东刘旭
Owner ZHEJIANG UNIV