Physicists introduce phase contrast to electron microscopy, delivering sharper images of our body's tiniest proteins

Nearly 100 years ago, a seemingly simple discovery revolutionized the microscope. The introduction of phase contrast, which ...
Medical Xpress

Want to speed brain research? It's all in how you look at it.

To get a better look at brains, Harvard researchers are making microscopes work more like human eyes. Until recently, the quest to build high-resolution maps of brains—otherwise known as "connectomes" ...
EurekAlert!

Reimagining electron microscopy: Bringing high-end resolution to lower-cost microscopes

A comparison of experimental annular dark field (ADF)-scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) and electron ptychography in uncorrected and aberration-corrected electron microscopes. In the ...
Physics World

‘Event-responsive’ electron microscopy focuses on fragile samples

Responsive technique: Jonathan Peters using an electron microscope at Trinity College Dublin (Courtesy: Lewys Jones and Jonathan Peters/Trinity College Dublin) A new scanning transmission electron ...
sciencex

Imaging living cells: First scanning electron microscope with nanomanipulator inaugurated

With a so-called cryo plasma-FIB (Plasma Focused Ion Beam) scanning electron microscope with nanomanipulator, Goethe University in Frankfurt (Germany) is expanding its research infrastructure with a ...
AZoNano

Electron Microscopy in Industry: Quality Control and Failure Analysis

They can image a wide range of materials and biological samples with high magnification, resolution, and depth of field, thereby revealing surface structure and chemical composition. Industries like ...