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Turn Your Mobile Phone into a High Resolution Microscope

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, the leading multi-technological applied research organisation in Northern Europe, has developed an optical accessory that turns an ordinary camera phone into a high-resolution microscope.

15 Feb 2012

Linkam High Temperature Microscope Stage Being Used to Investigate Temperature Dependent Spectral Measurements

Market leaders in temperature controlled microscopy, Linkam Scientific Instruments, report on the work of Dr Sharath Sriram, a Research Fellow at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. He uses Linkam specialist temperature stages with micro-Raman spectroscopy systems to investigate temperature dependent spectral measurements.

7 Feb 2012

Linkam Temperature Controlled Microscopy Stage Used in Freeze Drying Characterization of Pharmaceuticals

Market leaders in temperature controlled microscopy, Linkam Scientific Instruments report on the use of their THMS600 temperature stage as part of a system from Biopharma Technology Limited (BTL) to characterize freeze drying processes at the University of Iowa.

31 Jan 2012

New Photodetector Enhances Sensitivity in Multi-Photon Fluorescence Imaging

Olympus has released the new FV10MP-BXD-GAP photodetector for enhanced sensitivity when performing multi-photon fluorescence imaging.

30 Jan 2012

Nikon Instruments’ N-SIM Super Resolution Microscope Receives Top Recognition

A judging panel of experts has selected Nikon Instruments’ N-SIM super resolution microscope as one of the products of The Scientist's Top Ten Innovations of 2011.

From Nikon Instruments Inc. 20 Jan 2012

Olympus Release New Microscopes for Routine and Educational Applications

Olympus has today released the new CX22 microscopes for routine and educational microscopy. Building on the success of the CX21 series of microscopes, the CX22 series feature significant improvements for convenient microscopic observations.

15 Jan 2012

Expanded Short Course Program for Pittcon Announced

The Pittcon Organizing Committee is pleased to announce new courses for the 2012 Short Course program which runs March 10 through March 15, 2012. Short Courses offer skill-building and career enhancing training by industry experts; range from half-day up to two-day classes; and include beginner, intermediate, and advanced level curricula.

From Pittcon 12 Jan 2012

Checkpoint Technologies Unveils 3.0 NA SIL for Optical Failure Analysis Tools

Checkpoint Technologies, a provider of laser scanning and photon emission microscopy systems for applications in the failure analysis industry, has unveiled its 3.0 numerical aperture (NA) solid immersion lens objective (SIL).

7 Jan 2012

Novel Handheld Fluorescence Microscope for Laboratory Applications

Microscope.com and BigC.com have partnered to debut the Dino-Lite AM4113T-GFBW, the latest member of the Dino-Lite series. The AM4113T-GFBW is a portable fluorescence microscope. Fluorescence takes place when light having one wavelength is re-emitted at a different wavelength by matter.

4 Jan 2012

Research Student Builds Ultra-Resolution STED Confocal Microscope Prototype

The development of stimulated emission depletion (STED) confocal microscopes has paved the way to overcome the diffraction limit of optical microscopes, which causes a restriction in studying objects having size below 200 nm.

3 Jan 2012