Near-field scanning optical microscopy (NSOM) or scanning near-field optical microscopy (SNOM) is a microscopy technique for nanostructure investigation...
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of scanning probe microscopes are atomic force microscopes (AFM), near-field scanning optical microscopes (NSOM or SNOM, scanning near-field optical microscopy)...
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dominant microscope manufacturer of its era. 1928: Edward Hutchinson Synge publishes theory underlying the near-field scanning optical microscope 1931: Max...
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The optical microscope, also referred to as a light microscope, is a type of microscope that commonly uses visible light and a system of lenses to generate...
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conventional optical microscopy contributed significantly to the development of near-field optical devices, most notably the near-field scanning optical microscope...
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Confocal microscopy (redirect from Confocal laser scanning microscope)
confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) or laser scanning confocal microscopy (LSCM), is an optical imaging technique for increasing optical resolution...
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devices Near-field communication (NFC), a set of application protocols based on this Near-field optics Near-field scanning optical microscope This disambiguation...
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Microscopy (category Optical microscopy)
microscopy: optical, electron, and scanning probe microscopy, along with the emerging field of X-ray microscopy.[citation needed] Optical microscopy 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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Diffraction-limited system (redirect from Optical diffraction limit)
system can detect the near-field signal. For scattered light imaging, instruments such as near-field scanning optical microscopes and nano-FTIR, which...
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of the scanning tunneling microscope, an instrument for imaging surfaces at the atomic level. The first successful scanning tunneling microscope experiment...
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The stereo, stereoscopic or dissecting microscope is an optical microscope variant designed for low magnification observation of a sample, typically using...
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extended into the field of optical imaging in 1984 by Pohl, Denk, and Lanz, who developed a near-field scanning optical microscope capable of achieving...
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The environmental scanning electron microscope (ESEM) is a scanning electron microscope (SEM) that allows for the option of collecting electron micrographs...
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the speed of scanning. Therefore, translating one arm of the interferometer has two functions; depth scanning and a Doppler-shifted optical carrier are...
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Nanophotonics (section Near-field optics)
spaces (metamaterial) with an immersion microscope objective (superlens). Near-field scanning optical microscope (NSOM or SNOM) is a quite different nanophotonic...
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Nitrogen-vacancy center (section Optical properties)
NV centers can be studied with standard optical microscopes or, better, near-field scanning optical microscopes having sub-micrometre resolution. The NV...
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A fluorescence microscope is an optical microscope that uses fluorescence instead of, or in addition to, scattering, reflection, and attenuation or absorption...
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Angular resolution (redirect from Rayleigh criterion (Optical angular resolution))
using super-resolution microscopy. These include optical near-fields (Near-field scanning optical microscope) or a diffraction technique called 4Pi STED microscopy...
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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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Edward Hutchinson Synge (category Optical physicists)
who published a complete theoretical description of the near-field scanning optical microscope, an instrument used in nanotechnology, several decades before...
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Cathodoluminescence (redirect from Cathodoluminescence microscope)
engineering, a scanning electron microscope (SEM) fitted with a cathodoluminescence detector, or an optical cathodoluminescence microscope, may be used...
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Atomic force microscopy (redirect from Atomic Force Microscope)
types of scanning microscopy including SPM (which includes AFM, scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and near-field scanning optical microscope (SNOM/NSOM)...
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Nikon Eclipse transmitted light microscope/wide-field fluorescence microscope and standard CCD cameras. Light field capture is obtained by a module containing...
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Transmission electron microscopy (redirect from Transmission electron microscope)
sometimes incorporated on the same microscope. A TEM can be modified into a scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) by the addition of a system...
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The scanning helium microscope (SHeM) is a form of microscopy that uses low-energy (5–100 meV) neutral helium atoms to image the surface of a sample without...
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the scattering properties in liquids. The Raman microscope begins with a standard optical microscope, and adds an excitation laser, laser rejection filters...
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Two-photon excitation microscopy (redirect from Multiphoton fluorescence microscope)
an optical sectioning effect. Unlike confocal microscopes, multiphoton microscopes do not contain pinhole apertures that give confocal microscopes their...
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Objective (optics) (redirect from Microscope objective lens)
several optical elements. They are used in microscopes, binoculars, telescopes, cameras, slide projectors, CD players and many other optical instruments...
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Image scanner (redirect from Image scanning)
image scanner (often abbreviated to just scanner) is a device that optically scans images, printed text, handwriting, or an object and converts it to...
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