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

Researchers say the innovation, known as SmartEM, will speed scanning sevenfold and open the field of connectomics to a ...
Nanowerk

Introduction to Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)

Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) has revolutionized the realm of microscopic analysis. By delivering astonishingly detailed images of minuscule entities such as insects, bacteria, or even the ...
Nanowerk

Scanning Ion Conductance Microscopy (SICM): Nanoscale Imaging of Living Systems

What is Scanning Ion Conductance Microscopy? Scanning Ion Conductance Microscopy (SICM) is a non-contact scanning probe microscopy technique that enables high-resolution imaging of living cells and ...
Nature

Environmental Scanning Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications

Environmental Scanning Electron Microscopy (ESEM) represents a significant evolution of conventional scanning electron microscopy. By utilising variable pressure conditions rather than the high vacuum ...
The Scientist

The Expansion of Volume Electron Microscopy

With the inventions of transmission electron microscopy (TEM) in 1931 and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) shortly after in 1937, scientists gained an unprecedented ultrastructural view of the ...
Hackaday

How We Got The Scanning Electron Microscope

According to [Asianometry], no one believed in the scanning electron microscope. No one, that is, except [Charles Oatley].The video below tells the whole story. The Cambridge graduate built radios ...
Michigan Technological University

Thermo Fisher Apreo 2 FE-SEM

The Thermo Fisher Apreo 2 Variable Pressure Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope (FE-SEM) is a thermionic field emission high-resolution scanning electron microscope. The Apreo 2 FE-SEM is an ...
Michigan Technological University

MTU Lab Demonstrates Cutting-edge Equipment with Microscopic Snowflake Images

A unique laboratory at Michigan Tech captured microscopic photography of snowflakes in a demonstration of the lab's high-powered scanning electron microscope. The Applied Chemical and Morphological ...
AZOM

Carbon Coating for Scanning Electron Microscopy

Coatings are required to remove or diminish the electrical charges that promptly accumulate in a nonconducting material when examined by a high-energy electron beam. Material samples investigated at ...
Bow Doin Polar Bears

Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)

A scanning electron microscope, acquired in 2016 with a grant from the National Science Foundation, provides a powerful tool for students, faculty, and visiting researchers to study the structure and ...
EurekAlert!

Nematodes invading European beech leaf tissue under electron microscope (IMAGE)

A scanning electron microscope reveals nematodes (highlighted in green) inside the spongy mesophyll of a European beech (Fagus sylvatica) leaf infected with beech leaf disease (BLD). Eggs are marked ...