For centuries diffraction limited the resolution of optical microscopy. The past 50 years have, however, seen one limitation after another buckle under the ingenuity of a host of wide-ranging ...

In the field of materials characterization, optical microscopy is one of the most commonly used imaging techniques. It is estimated that the diffraction limit of optical light is half of the ...

Optical microscopes have for a long time played a vital role in biomedical research. Their ability to provide multidimensional structural and functional information about a specimen in a non-invasive ...

Shape, ranging from basic round femoral heads to complicated saddle-shaped knee prostheses. Size, spanning from tens of centimeters through to millimeters. Material, covering from hydroxyapatite to ...

Input and modulation of many different parameters are essential for other competitive ‘single measurement mode’ methods to produce better results on various surface textures in the same field of view ...

Scientists in the US have produced the highest resolution optical image to date – showing details of structures that are less than 30 nm across. Lukas Novotny from the University of Rochester and ...

Large-aperture interferometers are important in the manufacturing and measurement of large-aperture optical elements, which play critical roles in the fields of optical precision manufacturing and ...

A new optical measuring device offers a cheaper, quicker alternative to confocal microscopy. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology (IPT) have developed a prototype optical ...

Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been equally divided among the Laureates Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell and William E. Moerner for having bypassed a presumed scientific limitation stipulating that an ...

The optical light microscope MeF4M is used for examination of flat surfaces and for examination of materiallographic and metallographic sections. This research into the microstructure of materials. In ...

Bruker announced today that it has already received more than $7 million in orders for its new Bruker SP9900+ high-throughput high density interconnect (HDI) substrate metrology system, and has begun ...