STED microscopy with continuous wave beams

Breaking the diffraction resolution limit by stimulated emission: stimulated-emission-depletion fluorescence microscopy

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Fluorescence microscopy with diffraction resolution barrier broken by stimulated emission

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STED microscopy reveals that synaptotagmin remains clustered after synaptic vesicle exocytosis

Katrin I. Willig, Silvio O. Rizzoli, Volker Westphal et al. · Nature · 2006 · 1.2K citations

Life Sciences, Molecular Biology, Neuroscience +13

Macromolecular-scale resolution in biological fluorescence microscopy

Gerald Donnert, Jan Keller‐Findeisen, Rebecca Medda et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2006 · 530 citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Biophysics, Cell Biology +16

Nanoscale Resolution in the Focal Plane of an Optical Microscope

Volker Westphal, Stefan W. Hell · Physical Review Letters · 2005 · 491 citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Biophysics, Physics +17