Ever wondered what everyday things under a microscope look like? You’ll never look at a toothbrush—or a grain of salt—the ...

Even today, nearly 400 years since its invention, the optical microscope remains indispensable ... precludes reconstructing an image of an object with a resolution better than half the incident ...

The optical light microscope MeF4M is used for examination of flat surfaces and for examination of materiallographic and metallographic sections. This research into the microstructure of materials. In ...

Scanning near-field optical microscope (SNOM) – using the scattered light through a sub-wavelenght aperture to form an image. (Illustration by Kristian Molhave, Opensource Handbook of Nanoscience and ...

To diagnose diseases accurately, pathologists still typically examine histological samples under the microscope ... acquiring high-resolution images using optical microscopy to scan the entire ...

While STM provides unparalleled atomic-resolution images of conductive and semiconductive surfaces, AFM and SNOM extend the capabilities of SPM to non-conductive materials and offer complementary ...