The Development of Microscopic Imaging Technology and its Application in Micro- and Nanotechnology

Yong Wang; Xiushuo Zhang; Jing Xu; Xiangyu Sun; Xiaolong Zhao; Hongsheng Li; Yanping Liu; Jingjing Tian; Xiaorui Hao; Xiaofei Kong; Zhiwei Wang; Jie Yang; Yuqing Su

doi:10.3389/fchem.2022.931169

The Development of Microscopic Imaging Technology and its Application in Micro- and Nanotechnology

Front Chem. 2022 Jul 5:10:931169. doi: 10.3389/fchem.2022.931169. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Yong Wang^{1

2

3}, Xiushuo Zhang^{1

2

3}, Jing Xu^{1

2}, Xiangyu Sun⁴, Xiaolong Zhao^{1

2}, Hongsheng Li^{1

2

3}, Yanping Liu^{1

2

3}, Jingjing Tian^{1

2}, Xiaorui Hao^{1

2}, Xiaofei Kong^{1

2}, Zhiwei Wang^{1

2}, Jie Yang^{1

2}, Yuqing Su^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Laboratory of Optical Detection and Imaging, School of Science, Qingdao University of Technology, Qingdao, China.
² Quantum Physics Laboratory, School of Science, Qingdao University of Technology, Qingdao, China.
³ Qingdao Technology Innovation Center of Remote Sensing and Precise Measurement, Qingdao, China.
⁴ Torch High Technology Industry Development Center, Ministry of Science and Technology, Beijing, China.

Abstract

As a typical microscopic imaging technology, the emergence of the microscope has accelerated the pace of human exploration of the micro world. With the development of science and technology, microscopes have developed from the optical microscopes at the time of their invention to electron microscopes and even atomic force microscopes. The resolution has steadily improved, allowing humans to expand the field of research from the initial animal and plant tissues to microorganisms such as bacteria, and even down to the nanolevel. The microscope is now widely used in life science, material science, geological research, and other fields. It can be said that the development of microscopes also promotes the development of micro- and nanotechnology. It is foreseeable that microscopes will play a significant part in the exploration of the microworld for a long time to come. The development of microscope technology is the focus of this study, which summarized the properties of numerous microscopes and discussed their applications in micro and nanotechnology. At the same time, the application of microscopic imaging technology in micro- and nanofields was investigated based on the properties of various microscopes.

Keywords: expectation; imaging; micro-nano; microscopic; review.

Publication types

Review

Grants and funding

Open basic research project from the State Key Laboratory of Laser Interaction with Matter, China, No. SKLLIM2021-11; Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province, China, No. ZR2020QA078; National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. 12005110; Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China, No. QN 2022-03.