Nature Physics, Published online: 21 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s41567-024-02760-1
The central maximum of a diffraction pattern is commonly used to resolve point-like scatterers. Now spatial resolution far below the diffraction limit is achieved by using the scattering minima.
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