The way to nanoscopy

Abstract

In this article the way of evolution of the family of fluorescent microscopes in order to reach substantially higher resolution was presented. Current, STORM-type, superresolution microscopes allow to obtain resolution of the order of 10 nm but ingenieurs have strong foundations to believe that further progress in the area of more efficient fluorescent dyes synthesis and improvement of the computer aided image analysis allow to obtain resolutions close to appoximately 1 nm - that is to the level of current electron microscopes.