Professor Eric Potma Wins NSF CAREER Award

Title: Super-resolution in coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy

Eric Potma is supported by an award from the Experimental Physical Chemistry program to develop a coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) microscope with super-resolution. Development of this microscope will enable chemically selective imaging with a resolution down to the 50 nm length scale, opening up new areas in optical imaging of biological samples and engineered materials. The instrument will be used to study the nonlinear optical response of metallic nanowires, and to examine the distribution of sub-micrometer sized lipids droplets in breast cancer cells.