Microscopy News
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Research Could Dramatically Lower Cost Of Electron Sources
2/1/2021
Rice University engineers have discovered technology that could slash the cost of semiconductor electron sources, key components in devices ranging from night-vision goggles and low-light cameras to electron microscopes and particle accelerators.
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Fluorescence Microscopy At Highest Spatial And Temporal Resolution
1/14/2021
Only a few years ago, an ostensibly fundamental resolution limit in optical microscopy was superseded - a breakthrough which in 2014 led to the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for super-resolution microscopy.
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Nanocylinder Vibrations Help Quantify Polymer Curing For 3D Printing
12/10/2020
In a step toward making more accurate and uniform 3D-printed parts such as personalized prosthetics and dental materials, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a method of measuring the rate at which microscopic regions of a liquid raw material harden into a solid plastic when exposed to light.
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Record Resolution In X-Ray Microscopy
12/4/2020
Researchers at FAU, the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland and other institutions in Paris, Hamburg and Basel, have succeeded in setting a new record in X-ray microscopy. With improved diffractive lenses and more precise sample positioning, they were able to achieve spatial resolution in the single-digit nanometre scale.
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Scientists Invent A New Type Of Microscope That Can See Through An Intact Skull
12/3/2020
Non-invasive microscopic techniques such as optical coherence microscopy and two-photon microscopy are commonly used for in vivo imaging of living tissues. When light passes through turbid materials such as biological tissues, two types of light are generated: ballistic photons and multiply scattered photons.
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Controlling Fully Integrated Nanodiamonds
11/23/2020
Using modern nanotechnology, it is possible nowadays to produce structures which have a feature sizes of just a few nanometres. This world of the most minute particles – also known as quantum systems – makes possible a wide range of technological applications, in fields which include magnetic field sensing, information processing, secure communication or ultra-precise time keeping.
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An Electrical Trigger Fires Single, Identical Photons
10/8/2020
Secure telecommunications networks and rapid information processing make much of modern life possible. To provide more secure, faster, and higher-performance information sharing than is currently possible, scientists and engineers are designing next-generation devices that harness the rules of quantum physics.
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Getting A Grip On Near-Field Light
7/23/2020
There are many types of light — some visible and some invisible to the human eye. For example, our eyes and brain don’t have the tools to process ultraviolet light when it hits our eyes, making it invisible.
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Tiny Bubbles Make A Quantum Leap
7/13/2020
Researchers at Columbia Engineering and Montana State University report today that they have found that placing sufficient strain in a 2D material—tungsten diselenide (WSe2)—creates localized states that can yield single-photon emitters.
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Excelitas To Highlight Fluorescence Illumination Solutions For Microscopy At Biophysical Society 2019
2/28/2019
Excelitas Technologies Corp., a global technology leader delivering innovative, customized photonic solutions, will showcase its broad offering of X-Cite fluorescence illumination products for microscopy and debut its new white light LED light source at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society.