Researchers at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT-Italian Institute of Technology) have developed an innovative microscopy ...

Brightfield microscopy has been widely used for hundreds of years, while reflection contrast microscopy is relatively new technology. As one of the earliest and simplest microscopy techniques, ...

Sensitivity to the phase of the wavefield probing a specimen often results in improved contrast compared with absorption, especially when imaging biological samples such as small organisms, tissue ...

Reflection contrast microscopy can image small sections of cells by suppressing stray reflections. This is necessary when imaging biological samples, because biological objects tend to have reflected ...

We describe a phase plate for transmission electron microscopy taking advantage of a hitherto-unknown phenomenon, namely a beam-induced Volta potential on the surface of a continuous thin film. The ...

I love microscopes. Telescopes are cool and all, but they tend to sit on top of cold, windy mountains, and no one really looks into an eyepiece anymore. Microscopes sit right on the bench-top in front ...