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    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 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • microscope Scanning capacitance microscopy Near-field scanning optical microscope This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Scanning microscopy...
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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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    engineering, a scanning electron microscope (SEM) fitted with a cathodoluminescence detector, or an optical cathodoluminescence microscope, may be used...
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    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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    heterostructures, where he developed a low-temperature near-field scanning optical microscope and used it to investigate Mn-doped ZnSe/(Zn,Cd)Se heterostructure...
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    spark the growth of nanotechnology. First, the invention of the scanning tunneling microscope in 1981 enabled visualization of individual atoms and bonds...
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    the scanning SQUID microscope allows magnetic fields to be measured with unparalleled resolution and sensitivity. The first scanning SQUID microscope was...
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    plane of the specimen. The configuration is used in the scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM), and often in high-resolution X-ray ptychography...
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