Quantum mechanical effects help overcome a fundamental limitation of optical microscopy

Researchers from Regensburg and Birmingham have overcome a fundamental limitation of optical microscopy. With the help of ...
The Scientist

Scanning Microscopes Bring Imaging To The Atomic Scale

Since the first transmission electron microscope was sold in 1935, microscopes that use electrons--rather than light waves--to image objects have brought into focus levels of detail that were ...
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World’s first terahertz microscope shows long-hidden quantum jiggle in superconductors

MIT physicists have built a new microscope that can see quantum motion inside superconductors ...
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Light breaks its own limit by 100,000× to image matter at the scale of atoms

For over a century, light has both helped and limited our view of the ...

Refractive-index microscope measures a sample's optical properties with pinpoint accuracy

By combining two fundamentally different microscopy techniques, researchers can now measure the optical properties of a ...
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A view into the innermost workings of life: Hesse's first scanning electron microscope with nanomanipulator inaugurated in at Goethe University

Goethe University Frankfurt (Germany) ceremonially commissioned a state-of-the-art cryo plasma-FIB scanning electron microscope with nanomanipulator worth more than 5 million euros on Thursday. The ...