2005 European Research Awards Announced

SPIE has added 89 new senior members from academia, industry, and government, from across 17 countries. The members work in a variety of disciplines, including nanophotonics, quantum optics,...

Germany’s Federal Ministry of Education and Research is funding the establishment of the Leibniz Centre for Photonics in Infection Research (LPI) at the Jena University Hospital. The center...

In cell biology and medical imaging, the targeted manipulation of cells under controlled conditions is a major challenge in understanding processes and causal relationships. Researchers are dependent...

Biophotonics technology company and University of Münster spinout Refined Laser Systems has raised €2.7 million ($2.9 million) to develop a prototype intraoperative microscope that the...

The BC43 WF and SR from Oxford Instruments Andor are widefield and super resolution, respectively, benchtop microscopes for studying single cell and multicellular organoids, tissue sections, and...

The TAGARNO T50 from TAGARNO is a 4K digital microscope that uses Sony ISS’s FCB-ER9500 camera. The collaboration allows for a digital microscope that can capture live images at 60 fps. The...

The Retiga E9 from Teledyne Photometrics is a long exposure camera that can capture exposures from tens of microseconds to tens of minutes. Featuring stacked CMOS sensor technology developed by Sony,...

The Tunable Laser System from Spectrolight Inc. is an all-in-one tunable light source system that enables precise selection of a broad spectral range from 410 to 1650 nm and easy bandwidth adjustment...

When evaluating the surface of a component, surface roughness can be assessed by eye or by rubbing it with a fingertip. Common expressions include “shiny,” “lusterless and...

Laser development for the microscopy market continues to be driven by key trends in applications, which currently include superresolution techniques, multiphoton applications in optogenetics and...

By its original definition, a nanopositioning device is a mechanism capable of repeatedly delivering motion in increments as small as one nanometer. Lately demands from industry and research have...

An interferometer is an instrument that compares the position or surface structure of two objects. The basic two-beam division of amplitude interferometer components consists of a light source, a...

The Cricket™² is a plug & play camera image intensifier attachment enabling low light level imaging and extreme high shutter speeds for CMOS and CCD cameras. The Cricket™² fitted with a single MCP...

An overview of the Single-Objective Light Sheet.

Overview of the RAMM / MIM Platform for Microscopy - A Modular Alternative for Innovative Research.

In this white paper, Dr. Iain Johnson, Lumencor’s Director of Technical Support, tests Lumencor’s laser-based CELESTA Light Engine for consistency, power, and stability using continuous wave...

Join Us for a Free Webinar on Cellular Bioluminescence Imaging of Circadian Clocks With David K. Welsh, M.D. and Colin Coates Bioluminescence imaging of live cells has recently been recognized...

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an interferometric imaging technique that has become an established tool for deep-tissue imaging. Full-field (FF) OCT is one of its variants that can perform...

Multiphoton imaging is 30 years old and brimming with new technologies and application trends. Its largest user group is represented by the neuroscience community. Here, the synergy of an...

Understanding and repairing complex biological systems, such as the brain, require technologies for systematically observing and controlling these systems. Ed Boyden, Ph.D., and his research group at...

Cresyl violet, also known as cresyl violet acetate or cresyl echt violet, is a synthetic organic compound belonging to the class of triarylmethane dyes. It is commonly used in histology and...

The Golgi staining technique (also called the black reaction) makes it possible to look at the nervous system by rendering neurons visible under light microscopy. After a long process involving...

Molecules composed entirely of carbon, in the form of a hollow sphere, ellipsoid or tube. Also called buckyballs. Cylindrical fullerenes are called carbon nanotubes or buckytubes.

A nanotube, also known as a nanotubule or simply a tube-like structure, is a nanoscale cylindrical structure composed of various materials, including carbon, boron nitride, or other compounds....

Solving MERFISH challenges for Spatial Transcriptomics

Introducing the experts who design and manufacture high performance LED Illumination Systems.

Setting up Mad City Labs nanopositioning systems and micropositioners in Micro-Manager software.

The Dragonfly 600 confocal microscope system delivers outstanding multi-dimensional images from subcellular (nm) to whole organism (cm), while significantly boosting productivity. Its unrivalled...

A scanning tunneling microscope is a high-resolution imaging instrument that can detect and measure the positions of individual atoms on the surface of a material. A very fine conductive probe is...

A scanning electron microscope is a powerful imaging instrument used in scientific research, materials characterization, and various industrial applications. Unlike traditional optical microscopes,...

Founded in 1971, Edinburgh Instruments Ltd. is a global provider of sophisticated, state-of-the-art analytical instrumentation for optical spectroscopy. We design and manufacture a range of...

Andor Technology Ltd is a global developer and manufacturer of high-performance scientific cameras, microscopy systems and spectrographs for academic, government, and industrial applications. Founded...

For over 100 years, Prior Scientific has been manufacturing precision optical and electro-mechanical equipment and instrumentation. Prior is a leader in the development of precision motion,...

Mad City Labs, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of piezo nanopositioning systems and instrumentation capable of sub-nanometer positioning resolution. Our product line of nanopositioners,...