An Italian research center, Trento-based Fondazione Bruno Kessler, will lead the SUPERTWIN European Consortium that in the next three years will develop the first prototype of a quantum microscope in the world.
The objective of the SUPERTWIN project is to overcome the limits of classical optics to develop a super powerful microscope, able to exploit the properties of “twin” photons, the elementary particles of light theorized by quantum physics. This miscroscope would be able to reach a resolution of a few tens of billionths of a meter (nanometers), allowing to observe, for example, details of viruses or proteins.
Source: Fondazione Bruno Kessler