News tagged with optical microscopy

Microscopy reveals 'atomic antenna' behavior in graphene

Atomic-level defects in graphene could be a path forward to smaller and faster electronic devices, according to a study led by researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Scientists use laser imaging to assess safety of zinc oxide nanoparticles in sunscreen

Ultra-tiny zinc oxide (ZnO) particles with dimensions less than one-ten-millionth of a meter are among the ingredients list of some commercially available sunscreen products, raising concerns about whether ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Imaging instruction: Researchers produce 'primer' to guide the use of STORM

(PhysOrg.com) -- Though it was quickly adopted by the scientific community, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and of Physics Xiaowei Zhuang worried that researchers using the system of technology ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Nov 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

3-D microscope opens eyes to prehistoric oceans and present-day resources

A University of Alberta research team has turned their newly developed 3-D microscope technology on ancient sea creatures and hopes to expand its use.

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Microscopy, quantum-style: Atomic stacks imaged in real space

(PhysOrg.com) -- Since the first optical microscopes appeared in the late 1600s – an exact date and original inventor elude precise identification – microscopy has evolved dramatically. Scanning ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast feature

Researchers peer below the surface of living tissue

A fluorescent protein found in Monterey Bay's crystal jellyfish is helping University of California-Santa Cruz scientists peer deeper into living tissue.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Research team achieves first 2-color STED microscopy of living cells

Researchers are able to achieve extremely high-resolution microscopy through a process known as stimulated emission depletion (STED) microscopy. This cutting-edge imaging system has pushed the performance of microscopes significantly ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Aug 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Microscopes borrow tricks from astronomy to see deep into living tissues

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, are developing new microscope technologies to enable biologists to see deep within living tissues and observe critical processes involved in basic biology ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Nanoscale waveguide for future photonics

The creation of a new quasiparticle called the "hybrid plasmon polariton" may throw open the doors to integrated photonic circuits and optical computing for the 21st century. Researchers with the U.S. Department ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created May 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Study unlocks secrets of plague with stunning new imaging techniques

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a super-resolution microscopy technique that is answering long-held questions about exactly how and why a cell's defenses fail against ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created May 16, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Through a Sensor, Holographically

(PhysOrg.com) -- The power and resolution of lens-based optical microscopes have improved by orders of magnitude since their invention around 1595. Nevertheless, relying on a high-magnification lens for image ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Apr 26, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast feature

Improving microscopy by following the astronomers' guide star

A corrective strategy used by astronomers to sharpen images of celestial bodies can now help scientists see with more depth and clarity into the living brain of a mouse. Eric Betzig, a group leader at the Howard Hughes Medical ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

'Electron vortices' have the potential to increase conventional microscopes' capabilities

(PhysOrg.com) -- Electron microscopes are among the most widely used scientific and medical tools for studying and understanding a wide range of materials, from biological tissue to miniature magnetic devices, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (21) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Correcting a trick of the light brings molecules into view

Conventional wisdom holds that optical microscopy can't be used to "see" something as small as an individual molecule. But as it is wont, clever science has once again overturned conventional wisdom. Secretary ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jul 14, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (20) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Scientists create 3-D models of whole mouse organs (w/ Video)

Yale University engineers have for the first time created 3D models of whole intact mouse organs, a feat they accomplished using fluorescence microscopy. The team reports its findings in the May/June issue ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 24, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0