stimulated emission depletion microscopy

physics
Also known as: STED microscopy

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work of Hell

  • Hell, Stefan
    In Stefan Hell

    In Hell’s technique—called stimulated emission depletion (STED) microscopy—one laser beam excites the fluorescent molecules, but another turns off the fluorescence except from a small area. The laser beams are moved over the specimen, and an image is gradually built up. When he returned to Germany, he and his…

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