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Researchers Develop New Probe for Use in Atomic Force Microscopy

Researchers at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University have developed, characterized, and modeled a new kind of probe used in atomic force microscopy (AFM), which images, measures, and manipulates matter at the nanoscale.

11 Nov 2009

Researchers Image Tungstated Zirconia Catalyst by Using Electron Microscopy and Spectroscopy

The catalytic processes that facilitate the production of many chemicals and fuels could become much more environmentally friendly thanks to a breakthrough achieved by researchers from Lehigh and Rice Universities.

10 Nov 2009

Researchers Create Quantum Gas Microscope to Observe Single Atoms at Low Temperatures

Physicists at Harvard University have created a quantum gas microscope that can be used to observe single atoms at temperatures so low the particles follow the rules of quantum mechanics, behaving in bizarre ways.

5 Nov 2009

Laser-Scanning Microscope Helps to Image Brain Cells in Moving Animals

The majority of our life is spent moving around a static world and we generate our impression of the world using visual and other senses simultaneously. It is the ability to freely explore our environment that is essential for the view we form of our local surroundings. When we walk down the street and enter a shop to buy fruit, the street, shop and fruit are not moving, we are. What our brain is probably doing is constantly updating our position based on the information received from our sensory inputs such as eyes, ears, skin as well as our motor and vestibular systems, all in real time. The problem for researchers trying to understand how this occurs has always been how to record meaningful signals from the brain cells that do the calculations while we are in motion.

4 Nov 2009

Moritex Launches New Long Working Distance Lens Featuring 0.5x Magnification

Moritex Corporation, a leading machine vision and digital imaging manufacturer, has added a new long working distance lens, ML05-250N, to its existing lineup

30 Oct 2009

Prior Scientific Unveils Focus Only Control System for Use in Modern Microscopes

Prior Scientific has introduced a new focus only control system for modern microscopes

23 Oct 2009

Hush Pump for Scanning Electron Microscopes

ASPEX today introduced the Hush Pump(TM), an affordable, noise reducing, oil-free pump for scanning electron microscopes (SEMs) and laboratory equipment requiring a clean vacuum system. This compact, high-performance SEM vacuum pump also offers vibration dampening for sensitive equipment applications while alleviating routine maintenance and contamination.

23 Oct 2009

Picosun Plays Part in New World X-Ray Microscopy Record

Groundbreaking work by scientists from Switzerland, Finland and Germany has lead to a new world record in X-ray microscopy. For the first time ever, features below 10 nanometres (nm) in width were resolved.

30 Sep 2009

Mobius Photonics Laser System Used in STED Microscopy Experiments at Max-Planck Institute

Mobius Photonics, an innovative producer of short pulsed fiber laser sources (IR, green, and UV laser), announces that its G1+ Laser System has been used in stimulated emission depletion (STED) microscopy experiments at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry (Göttingen, Germany).

30 Sep 2009

Nikon Develops New High Zoom Stereomicroscope

The SMZ745T trinocular stereomicroscope is a strong new addition to the Nikon stereo zoom microscope range. By optimising the design of the Greenough optical system, Nikon has realised an impressive 7.5x zoom, as well as incorporating a convenient optical path switch and built in camera port to simplify digital imaging.

10 Sep 2009