Photonics.com: Microscopy Focus http://www.photonics.com/Splash.aspx?PageID=37 This is the syndication feed for photonics.com. Determining the Composition of Quantum Dots from Top to Bottom Quantum dots may shine, but shedding light on their make-up has proved to be difficult because they are small, with sizes in the tens of nanometers. S http://www.photonics.com/Content/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=34323 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT Confocal Microscopy Enables Direct Observation of Photonic Nanojets If you shine a beam of light onto a sphere just a few microns in diameter, an unusual effect takes place: On the side opposite where the beam strikes, http://www.photonics.com/Content/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=34324 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT For a Real Close-up, a Little Light Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin have shed new light on near-field scanning optical microscopy. Incorporating a nanometer-scale LED http://www.photonics.com/Content/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=33976 Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT High-Quality NSOM Aperture Probes Made More Cheaply Near-field scanning optical microscopes (NSOM) have not been used widely or routinely because of difficulties producing high-quality probes at a reaso http://www.photonics.com/Content/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=33527 Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT Visible and Nonvisible Imaging Techniques The field of industrial microscopy has evolved from simple bright-field on-axis imaging to that of nonvisible and confocal-based technologies. Bright- http://www.photonics.com/Content/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=33529 Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT Practical Nanotomography The applications of focused ion beam-based nanotomography already are quite diverse and are expanding quickly. Materials science applications range fr http://www.photonics.com/Content/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=33531 Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT Scanning Impedance Probe Microscopy Mapping physical properties of various materials at high resolution has been pursued for decades in the microscopy world, and new challenges are added http://www.photonics.com/Content/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=33631 Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT Making Movies with Nanoscale Resolution In an example of an extreme movie close-up, researchers have used a subwavelength-resolution technique to track synaptic vesicle movement at video rat http://www.photonics.com/Content/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=33015 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT A Small Temperature Probe with a Bright Future To measure temperature on the nanoscale, you need a minuscule thermometer. Now a group of researchers has demonstrated that a fluorescent particle glu http://www.photonics.com/Content/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=32567 Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT Lensless Soft X-Ray Microscopy System Achieves 70-nm Resolution Although x-ray crystallography can reveal the structure of molecules, numerous molecules cannot be crystallized and are not found naturally in crystal http://www.photonics.com/Content/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=32568 Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT