Infrared nanoscopy

My contribution is to highlight a recent advance in the area of microscopy: infrared near-field microscopy of the scattering type (infrared s-SNOM). This ultra-resolving infrared microscopy has come quite as a surprise because the >3 mum wavelengths seemed to prohibit - from Abbe's rule - any sub-micrometer resolution. The realization of a 10-nm resolving infrared microscope enables the power of infrared spectroscopy to benefit future nanoscience research.