Imaging with Waves
How good is the eye? m resolution
Magnification
Seeing small things Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
The inverted telescope
Robert Hooke
Seeing sharper
Modern optical microscopy
Focusing down Airy Disk 0.61 /NA NA = nsin 22 Resolution ~ 300 nm
The diffraction limit Objects spaced apart by less than d~ /2NA cannot be resolved individually! Ernst Abbe ( )
Imaging with the diffraction limit ObjectImageFocal spot Images can be improved by using shorter wavelengths
CD versus DVD 7x more data on DVD because of different wavelength! 780 nm650 nm (Blu-Ray DVD uses 405 nm, 6x more data than DVD)
UV lithography
Superresolution
Single molecules
Seeing single molecules at work
Seeing smaller things using EM radiationusing particles of particles: Electron with v = 1.0 x 10 5 m/s:
Electron Microscopy Resolution ~ 0.2 nm
Electron Microscopy
Cryo-Electron Microscopy
Viral DNA portal protein
What are X -rays? Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen ( ) Electromagnetic radiation with wavelength of ~ m
Focusing or diffracting? Bragg diffractionDiffraction pattern 2d sin = n
X-ray crystallography
Protein structure determination X-ray crystallography reveals electron densities
Protein structure determination
No longer a mystery
DNA polymerase on the DNA backbone