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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

OAK RIDGE, Tenn., March 25, 2010 -- Using the latest in aberration-corrected electron microscopy, researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and their colleagues have ...

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 ...

PHASE-CONTRAST' methods have recently been JL widely used to improve the visibility of small transparent objects. The illumination is restricted to a narrow cone by means of an annular diaphragm ...

We discuss an intuitive approach to interpreting mirror electron microscopy (MEM) images, whereby image contrast is primarily caused by the Laplacian of small height or potential variations across a ...