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Breaking the diffraction resolution limit by stimulated emission: stimulated-emission-depleti... 1994 2026 2004 2015 4.1k
  1. Breaking the diffraction resolution limit by stimulated emission: stimulated-emission-depletion fluorescence microscopy (1994)
    Stefan W. Hell et al. Optics Letters
  2. Far-Field Optical Nanoscopy (2007)
    Stefan W. Hell Science
  3. Fluorescence microscopy with diffraction resolution barrier broken by stimulated emission (2000)
    Thomas A. Klar, Stefan Jakobs et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  4. Direct observation of the nanoscale dynamics of membrane lipids in a living cell (2008)
    Christian Eggeling, Christian Ringemann et al. Nature
  5. STED microscopy reveals that synaptotagmin remains clustered after synaptic vesicle exocytosis (2006)
    Katrin I. Willig, Silvio O. Rizzoli et al. Nature
  6. Nanometer resolution imaging and tracking of fluorescent molecules with minimal photon fluxes (2016)
    Francisco Balzarotti, Klaus Gwosch et al. Science
  7. Microscopy and its focal switch (2008)
    Stefan W. Hell Nature Methods
  8. Toward fluorescence nanoscopy (2003)
    Stefan W. Hell Nature Biotechnology
  9. Fluorescence nanoscopy in cell biology (2017)
    Steffen J. Sahl, Stefan W. Hell et al. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
  10. Breaking the diffraction barrier in fluorescence microscopy at low light intensities by using reversibly photoswitchable proteins (2005)
    M. Hofmann, Christian Eggeling et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  11. Fluorogenic probes for live-cell imaging of the cytoskeleton (2014)
    Gražvydas Lukinavičius, Luc Reymond et al. Nature Methods
  12. Bruchpilot Promotes Active Zone Assembly, Ca 2+ Channel Clustering, and Vesicle Release (2006)
    Robert J. Kittel, Carolin Wichmann et al. Science
  13. Fluorescence nanoscopy by ground-state depletion and single-molecule return (2008)
    Jonas Fölling, Mariano L. Bossi et al. Nature Methods
  14. Video-Rate Far-Field Optical Nanoscopy Dissects Synaptic Vesicle Movement (2008)
    Volker Westphal, Silvio O. Rizzoli et al. Science
  15. Subdiffraction resolution in far-field fluorescence microscopy (1999)
    Thomas A. Klar, Stefan W. Hell Optics Letters
  16. STED microscopy reveals crystal colour centres with nanometric resolution (2009)
    Eva Rittweger, Kyu Young Han et al. Nature Photonics
  17. Aberrations in confocal fluorescence microscopy induced by mismatches in refractive index (1993)
    Stefan W. Hell, G. Reiner et al. Journal of Microscopy
  18. Membrane protein sequestering by ionic protein–lipid interactions (2011)
    Geert van den Bogaart, Karsten Meyenberg et al. Nature
  19. Macromolecular-scale resolution in biological fluorescence microscopy (2006)
    Gerald Donnert, Jan Keller‐Findeisen et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  20. MINFLUX nanoscopy delivers 3D multicolor nanometer resolution in cells (2020)
    Klaus Gwosch, Jasmin K. Pape et al. Nature Methods
  21. Properties of a 4Pi confocal fluorescence microscope (1992)
    Stefan W. Hell, Ernst H. K. Stelzer Journal of the Optical Society of America A
  22. Diffraction-unlimited all-optical imaging and writing with a photochromic GFP (2011)
    Tim Grotjohann, Ilaria Testa et al. Nature
  23. Ground-state-depletion fluorscence microscopy: A concept for breaking the diffraction resolution limit (1995)
    Stefan W. Hell, M. Kroug Applied Physics B
  24. STED microscopy with continuous wave beams (2007)
    Katrin I. Willig, Benjamin Harke et al. Nature Methods
  25. Anatomy and Dynamics of a Supramolecular Membrane Protein Cluster (2007)
    Jochen J. Sieber, Katrin I. Willig et al. Science
  26. Stimulated emission depletion (STED) nanoscopy of a fluorescent protein-labeled organelle inside a living cell (2008)
    Birka Hein, Katrin I. Willig et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  27. Nanoscale Resolution in the Focal Plane of an Optical Microscope (2005)
    Volker Westphal, Stefan W. Hell Physical Review Letters
  28. Multifocal multiphoton microscopy (1998)
    Joerg Bewersdorf, Stefan W. Hell et al. Optics Letters
  29. Sharper low-power STED nanoscopy by time gating (2011)
    Giuseppe Vicidomini, Gaël Moneron et al. Nature Methods
  30. Protein localization in electron micrographs using fluorescence nanoscopy (2010)
    Shigeki Watanabe, Gunther Hollopeter et al. Nature Methods
  31. Nanoscopy in a Living Mouse Brain (2012)
    Katrin I. Willig, Heinz Steffens et al. Science
  32. Fundamental improvement of resolution with a 4Pi-confocal fluorescence microscope using two-photon excitation (1992)
    Stefan W. Hell, Ernst H. K. Stelzer Optics Communications
  33. Scanning STED-FCS reveals spatiotemporal heterogeneity of lipid interaction in the plasma membrane of living cells (2014)
    Alf Honigmann, Veronika Mueller et al. Nature Communications
  34. Maturation-Dependent HIV-1 Surface Protein Redistribution Revealed by Fluorescence Nanoscopy (2012)
    Jakub Chojnacki, Thorsten Staudt et al. Science
  35. Phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate clusters act as molecular beacons for vesicle recruitment (2013)
    Alf Honigmann, Geert van den Bogaart et al. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
  36. MINFLUX dissects the unimpeded walking of kinesin-1 (2023)
    Johann Engelhardt, Jessica Matthias et al. Science

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