Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Charge coupled device (CCD) cameras were first applied to transmission electron microscopy in the 1980s and later became widespread. [3] [4] For use in a TEM, CCDs are typically coupled with a scintillator such as single crystal Yttrium aluminium garnet (YAG) in which electrons from the electron beam are converted to photons, which are then transferred to the sensor of the CCD via a fiber ...
Leica Microsystems GmbH is a German microscope manufacturing company. It is a manufacturer of optical microscopes , equipment for the preparation of microscopic specimens and related products. There are ten plants in eight countries with distribution partners in over 100 countries.
A Wild M400 macroscope. A macroscope or photomacroscope in its camera-equipped version (in German: makroskop / photomakroskop) is a type of optical microscope developed and named by Swiss microscope manufacturers Wild Heerbrugg and later, after that company's merger with Leica in 1987, by Leica Microsystems of Germany, optimised for high quality macro photography and/or viewing using a single ...
Different techniques including freeze-fracturing and cell fractionation may be used to overcome the problems of artifacts. [1] A crush artifact is an artificial elongation and distortion seen in histopathology and cytopathology studies, presumably because of iatrogenic compression of tissues. Distortion can be caused by the slightest ...
Nikon launched the Optiphot and Labophot microscopes in the 1970's and established the CF Optical system. In the 1980's, they released 80 new products, including the inverted Diaphot microscope, which was used in IVF techniques. The introduction of the Eclipse range of infinity optics in the 1990's was a departure from traditional microscope ...
A scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) is a type of transmission electron microscope (TEM). Pronunciation is [stɛm] or [ɛsti:i:ɛm]. As with a conventional transmission electron microscope (CTEM), images are formed by electrons passing through a sufficiently thin specimen. However, unlike CTEM, in STEM the electron beam is focused ...
Both the TEAM microscopes are S/TEMs (they can be used in both TEM mode and STEM mode) that correct for both spherical aberration and chromatic aberration. [22] [23] The TEAM microscopes are managed by the National Center for Electron Microscopy, a facility of the Molecular Foundry at LBNL, and ACAT by the Center for Nanoscale Materials at ANL.
The microscope is designed to be simple to use and is based around a Spinning Disk Confocal approach. It incorporates an sCMOS camera and a 4-line laser engine. In August 2022, Andor’s benchtop confocal microscope (BC43) won Microscopy Today Innovation Award, run by the American top-tier publication Microscopy Today.