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The GeoImage™ from CRAIC Technologies is a microscope imaging photometer designed to provide advanced material analysis for geology, mining, and environmental research. It uses both high...

The Newport™ ODiate® Fluorescent Filter Sets from MKS Instruments are single band optical filter sets designed for wavelength ranges of common fluorophores used in fluorescent imaging. The...

The HT-X1™ Plus from Tomocube is a bioimaging platform for capturing 3D images of cells and organoids for biomedical research applications. The platform is equipped with a CXP camera and...

Mad City Labs offers a complete product line of high precision piezo nanopositioners, micropositioners, single molecule microscopes, and atomic force microscopes (AFM). Applications - photonics,...

Researchers at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) combined pulsed-interleaved MINFLUX (pMINFLUX) nanoscopy with a newly developed method for axial resolution that exploits the special...

To study brain functions like memory, neuroscientists track the electrical communications of neurons. These voltage changes can be subtle and happen on a millisecond timescale. A programmable image...

Image scanning microscopy (ISM), a superresolution technique enabled by the advent of fast and compact detector arrays, provides signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), optical sectioning, and spatial...

Extreme precision is required to surgically remove a cancerous tumor without damaging the surrounding healthy tissue. Yet surgeons often must rely on their eyes and hands to determine where to cut....

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...

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...

As recently as five years ago, shopping for a microscope light source was fairly straightforward. For routine applications, it was tungsten halogen, typically 100 W, while for fluorescence, it was an...

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...

For some advanced microscopy and nanoscopy techniques it becomes necessary to modify existing instrumentation or build an instrument from scratch. This article helps readers determine whether a...

Overview of FTP-2000.

ASI's VTS-2300 Versatile Test Stand used in conjunction with our Modular Infinity Microscope System.

Inspection plays a critical role in today’s semiconductor manufacturing. Nonlinear optical techniques present compelling advantages, but require lasers producing femtosecond pulses at adjustable...

The microstructure and cellular organization of tissues have been imaged to differentiate between tissue types in their normal and diseased states since the 19th century. However, despite major...

To maximize cancer patients’ survival, in vitro cancer cells and newly developed patient-derived organotypic tumor models are widely used to investigate the role of metabolism reprogramming in...

Biological systems with intrinsic complexity require multiplexing techniques to comprehensively describe the phenotype, interaction, and heterogeneity. However, fluorescence can only image two to...

Multiphoton excitation and nonlinear imaging microscopy are being used increasingly in biomedical research for high-resolution live-cell imaging. However, traditional single photon techniques have a...

Histochemical staining is a laboratory technique used in biology and medicine to visualize specific chemical components within biological tissues. This technique involves the application of various...

Additive manufacturing (AM), also known as 3D printing, is a manufacturing process that involves creating three-dimensional objects by adding material layer by layer. This is in contrast to...

3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing (AM), is a manufacturing process that builds three-dimensional objects layer by layer from a digital model. This technology allows the creation of...

A crystal, glass, or quartz slicing and cutting machine is a specialized piece of equipment used in the manufacturing process to precisely cut and slice materials such as crystals, glass, and quartz...

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

A video manual.

Break through the burden of countless images demanded by your neuroscience research with a ten-fold speed boost, compared to conventional confocal microscopes. Flexible imaging modes cover sensitive...

The May episode of Light Matters features renowned artist Duke Riley, whose work is lighting up the skies over Brooklyn Navy Yard through mid-June with Fly by Night, a uniquely-orchestrated live...

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 petrographic microscope is a microscope equipped with a polarizer, an analyzer and a Bertrand lens to focus on the upper focal plane of the objective. It is used chiefly by mineralogists and...

In 1977, Dale Flaming, a scientist working at the University of California at San Francisco, was having difficulty reliably producing micropipettes. He developed the first electronically controlled...

Avantier Inc. is an unparalleled leader in providing innovative imaging systems solutions and optical systems solutions. We offer advance precision custom optical design, optical engineering...

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,...