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ArticleNature communications2021

3D printable diffractive optical elements by liquid immersion.

Reut Orange-Kedem, Elias Nehme, Lucien E Weiss, Boris Ferdman, Onit Alalouf, Nadav Opatovski, Yoav Shechtman

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Article in Nature communications, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Reut Orange-KedemRussell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
Elias NehmeLorry Lokey Interdisciplinary Center for Life Sciences and Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
Lucien E WeissLorry Lokey Interdisciplinary Center for Life Sciences and Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.ORCID 0000-0002-0971-7329
Boris FerdmanRussell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
Onit AlaloufLorry Lokey Interdisciplinary Center for Life Sciences and Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
Nadav OpatovskiRussell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
Yoav ShechtmanRussell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. yoavsh@bm.technion.ac.il.ORCID 0000-0001-8498-5203

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Diffractive optical elements (DOEs) are used to shape the wavefront of incident light. This can be used to generate practically any pattern of interest, albeit with varying efficiency. A fundamental challenge associated with DOEs comes from the nanoscale-precision requirements for their fabrication. Here we demonstrate a method to controllably scale up the relevant feature dimensions of a device from tens-of-nanometers to tens-of-microns by immersing the DOEs in a near-index-matched solution. This makes it possible to utilize modern 3D-printing technologies for fabrication, thereby significantly simplifying the production of DOEs and decreasing costs by orders of magnitude, without hindering performance. We demonstrate the tunability of our design for varying experimental conditions, and the suitability of this approach to ultrasensitive applications by localizing the 3D positions of single molecules in cells using our microscale fabricated optical element to modify the point-spread-function (PSF) of a microscope.

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ImmersionOptical DevicesPrinting, Three-DimensionalImaging, Three-DimensionalMicroscopy, FluorescenceNanotechnologySensitivity and Specificity

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PMID34031389
PMCPMC8144415

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