Stefan W. Hell

Research interests

Publications

• MINFLUX nanoscopy delivers 3D multicolor nanometer resolution in cells

  Nature Methods · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-019-0688-0

• Fluorescence nanoscopy in cell biology

  Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nrm.2017.71

• Nanometer resolution imaging and tracking of fluorescent molecules with minimal photon fluxes

  Science · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aak9913

• Fluorogenic probes for live-cell imaging of the cytoskeleton

  Nature Methods · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.2972

• Diffraction-unlimited all-optical imaging and writing with a photochromic GFP

  Nature · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature10497

• Membrane protein sequestering by ionic protein–lipid interactions

  Nature · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature10545

• STED microscopy reveals crystal colour centres with nanometric resolution

  Nature Photonics · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2009.2

• Fluorescence nanoscopy by ground-state depletion and single-molecule return

  Nature Methods · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.1257

• Microscopy and its focal switch

  Nature Methods · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.1291

• Direct observation of the nanoscale dynamics of membrane lipids in a living cell

  Nature · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature07596

• Video-Rate Far-Field Optical Nanoscopy Dissects Synaptic Vesicle Movement

  Science · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1154228

• Far-Field Optical Nanoscopy

  Science · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1137395

• STED microscopy with continuous wave beams

  Nature Methods · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth1108

• STED microscopy reveals that synaptotagmin remains clustered after synaptic vesicle exocytosis

  Nature · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature04592

• Bruchpilot Promotes Active Zone Assembly, Ca 2+ Channel Clustering, and Vesicle Release

  Science · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1126308

• Macromolecular-scale resolution in biological fluorescence microscopy

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0604965103

• Breaking the diffraction barrier in fluorescence microscopy at low light intensities by using reversibly photoswitchable proteins

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0506010102

• Nanoscale Resolution in the Focal Plane of an Optical Microscope

  Physical Review Letters · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.94.143903

• Toward fluorescence nanoscopy

  Nature Biotechnology · 2003 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt895

• Fluorescence microscopy with diffraction resolution barrier broken by stimulated emission

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2000 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.97.15.8206

• Subdiffraction resolution in far-field fluorescence microscopy

  Optics Letters · 1999 · https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.24.000954

• Ground-state-depletion fluorscence microscopy: A concept for breaking the diffraction resolution limit

  Applied Physics B · 1995 · https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01081333

• Breaking the diffraction resolution limit by stimulated emission: stimulated-emission-depletion fluorescence microscopy

  Optics Letters · 1994 · https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.19.000780

• Aberrations in confocal fluorescence microscopy induced by mismatches in refractive index

  Journal of Microscopy · 1993 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2818.1993.tb03315.x

• Properties of a 4Pi confocal fluorescence microscope

  Journal of the Optical Society of America A · 1992 · https://doi.org/10.1364/josaa.9.002159

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