To get the best out of light microscopy in your application, it is essential to have a good understanding of how a basic light microscope works, and what variations exist today. Simple and compound ...

Interestingly, although this makes for simple operation ... and how beautifully smooth they all moved that made this compound microscope such a pleasure to use. We could shift to a new objective ...

Robert Hooke, an English scholar, also employed simple and compound microscopes to observe many aspects of the natural world, including fleas, plants and fungi. His Micrographia, the first popular ...

The optics of the instrument are described in a simple manner, and a final chapter deals with pond-life as objects for the microscope. Published by Messrs. R. and J. Beck, the book avowedly deals ...

[Birdbrain] is trying to make their own microfluidic devices. To aid in this quest, they need a quality microscope to see what they’re doing. Instead of buying one outright, they purchased a ...

A compact, low cost, optical trapping microscope has been developed by scientists at the University of Hertfordshire in the UK by adapting a standard optical microscope using a laser diode. The ...

“Simple optical microscopes have never been used for observing detailed dynamics of simple nanoscale objects,” said Prof. Pradeep. The results of the study were published on August 5 in ...