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    A scanning electron microscope (SEM) is a type of electron microscope that produces images of a sample by scanning the surface with a focused beam of electrons...
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    Scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) which is similar to TEM with a scanned electron probe Scanning electron microscope (SEM) which is similar...
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    environmental scanning electron microscope (ESEM) is a scanning electron microscope (SEM) that allows for the option of collecting electron micrographs...
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    of microscopes are the fluorescence microscope, electron microscope (both the transmission electron microscope and the scanning electron microscope) and...
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    A scanning tunneling microscope (STM) is a type of scanning probe microscope used for imaging surfaces at the atomic level. Its development in 1981 earned...
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    has some similarity to a scanning electron microscope (SEM), but is characterized by a fixed electron beam rather than a scanning one. An EPMA is primarily...
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    A scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) is a type of transmission electron microscope (TEM). Pronunciation is [stɛm] or [ɛsti:i:ɛm]. As with...
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    electron microscope. The primary advantages to the electron microscope based technique is its spatial resolution. In a scanning electron microscope,...
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    transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) Low-voltage electron microscope (LVEM) Precession electron diffraction Scanning confocal electron microscopy "Viruses"...
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    of Engineering in 1978 for contributions to the electron optics of the scanning electron microscope and to its use in electronics and biology. He was...
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    Atomic force microscope (AFM) Scanning electron microscope (SEM) Scanning ion-conductance microscopy (SICM) Scanning tunneling microscope (STM) Transmission...
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    Atomic force microscopy (AFM) or scanning force microscopy (SFM) is a very-high-resolution type of scanning probe microscopy (SPM), with demonstrated resolution...
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  • Confocal microscopy, most frequently confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) or laser scanning confocal microscopy (LSCM), is an optical imaging technique...
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  • An electron microscope uses a controlled beam of electrons to illuminate a specimen and produce a magnified image. Two common types are the scanning electron...
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    A scanning acoustic microscope (SAM) is a device which uses focused sound to investigate, measure, or image an object (a process called scanning acoustic...
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    crystallographic structure of materials. EBSD is carried out in a scanning electron microscope equipped with an EBSD detector comprising at least a phosphorescent...
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    There are two types of electron microscopes, the transmission electron microscope and the scanning electron microscope. Electron microscopy is a common...
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    Focused ion beam (category Electron microscopy)
    instrument that resembles a scanning electron microscope (SEM). However, while the SEM uses a focused beam of electrons to image the sample in the chamber...
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    sciences Green fluorescent protein (GFP) Mercury-vapor lamp Microscope Scanning electron microscope § Cathodoluminescence Stokes shift Xenon arc lamp Spring...
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    the microstructures of thin transmission electron microscopy (TEM) specimens in the scanning electron microscope (SEM). This technique has been widely utilised...
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  • of scanning confocal electron microscope is a complex problem first solved by Nestor J. Zaluzec. His first scanning confocal electron microscope demonstrated...
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    pollen taken from a scanning electron microscope Close-up Digital microscope Macro photography Microphotograph Microscopy USB microscope "Papers of Richard...
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    of the tip by approximately 2.7 eV. In electron microscopes, a field emission gun is used to produce an electron beam that is smaller in diameter, more...
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    together by a portion of the rachis Spikelet cluster viewed by scanning electron microscope The rachis segment, sometimes called a "callus", is hardened...
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    Electron-beam lithography (often abbreviated as e-beam lithography or EBL) is the practice of scanning a focused beam of electrons to draw custom shapes...
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    Blood–brain barrier Scanning electron microscope image of a glomerulus in a mouse (1000x magnification) Scanning electron microscope image of a glomerulus...
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  • Mochii (category Scanning probe microscopy)
    Mochii is a miniature scanning electron microscope made by Seattle-based startup company Voxa. The Mochii has the same capabilities as a conventional SEM...
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  • three-dimensional structures. The focused electron beam of a scanning electron microscope (SEM) or scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) is commonly used. Another...
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  • and techniques: Optical microscope Scanning acoustic microscope (SAM) Scanning electron microscope (SEM) Atomic force microscope (AFM) Stereomicroscope...
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    in a scanning electron microscope (SEM), electron backscatter diffraction can be used to determine crystal orientation across the sample. Electron diffraction...
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