Re: super resolution - Zeiss enters the boat

Posted by Csucs Gabor on
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It will be also interesting to see the "patent fight". A few month ago
I've listened to a talk by Stefan Hell, where he nicely presented that
actually the basis for STED (as for STORM/PALM) is the fact that dye
molecules have two switchable states - bright/dark. But this doesn't
need to be bright and dark - any system which has two distinct,
switchable states (color change or something else...) could be used to
reach high resolution. So, basically although the realization behind
STED and PALM/STROM is completely different, but the basic condition is
the same....

Cheers   Gabor