Before arriving at Janelia three years ago, Postdoctoral Scientist Antonio Fiore was designing and building optical ...

Microscopes magnify light. It makes sense that having more light reflecting off of the subject will result in a better magnified image. And so we come to Aziz! Light! It’s [Steve’s] LED light ...

To use a light microscope to examine animal or plant cells. To make observations and draw scale diagrams of cells. Turn the coarse focus so that the stage is as close to the objective lens as ...

The Center is outfitted with an array of Zeiss and Nikon light microscopes that are equipped for various LM techniques. These techniques include brightfield (transmitted and reflected), phase contrast ...

It will just become blurry. The resolution of a light microscope is around 0.2 μm, or 200 nm. This means that it cannot distinguish two points closer than 200 nm. One nm, or nanometre ...

When selecting a microscope, it’s important to consider various features, such as the field of view, frame construction, lighting, optical quality and resolution. There are several types of ...

This microscope was also comfortable to use ... because of the lower and upper light options. The lower light was necessary to view subcellular structures and adaptations, as required when ...

An infrared microscope designed by a University of Iowa team led by Thomas Folland helped produce information that could help ...

The reality is that TEM has less in common with light imaging than it may seem ... as being shadow-cast in an electron microscope, this view is incorrect and misleading. As the electron waves ...

The paper provides a detailed explanation of how the profile of the light collected in a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) ...