Figure 1: Basic compound microscope: Light from a source is focused onto the sample (object) using a mirror and condenser lens. Light from the sample is collected by an objective, forming an ...

Most entry-level compound microscopes will use a tungsten bulb or a light-emitting diode (LED) ring. A good quality compound microscope should come standard with a halogen bulb or fluorescent ...

There are many distinctions between a compound microscope and a stereo microscope, but most notable is how they work and their capability of magnification.

Using sheets of light to scan cells, a new microscope can capture real-time 3D videos of what's happening inside cells down to the molecular level—feat once thought impossible.

In a collaboration with the University of Vienna and the University of Siegen, Germany, the TU Wien researchers have now ...

A new microscope combines a normal optical scope with a see-through microsphere superlens, beating the diffraction limit of light and shattering the limits of optical microscopes. With the new ...

Observations made by the entanglement-enhanced microscope (left) and a differential interference contrast microscope using classical light (right) Entangled photons significantly improve on this.

Everyone who ever took a photo knows the problem: if you want a detailed image, you need a lot of light. In microscopy, ...