While a digital microscope may accomplish the same duties as an optical microscope, it also has additional advantages. A digital microscope does not have an eyepiece and instead uses a digital camera. Digital microscopes can display the findings in real-time by connecting to a computer monitor. To know more about the digital microscope and its…
Microscope – Let’s split the name into two parts to understand what it actually means. “Micro” means very small (typically not visible to the naked eye) and “scope” means to assess or investigate carefully. So, the microscope is an instrument that aids users to carefully investigate and assess microscopic organisms and objects that are not…
As the name suggests, a compound microscope uses a combination of lenses coupled with an artificial light source to magnify an object at various zoom levels to study the object. A compound microscope: Invented in the late 16th century by Zacharias Janssen, compound microscopes have contributed immensely to the medical field. It has helped scientists,…
Definition Scanning electron microscope is a classification of electron microscope that uses raster scanning to produce the images of a specimen by scanning using a focused electron beam on the surface of the specimen. Working principle and Diagram of SEM A scanning electron microscope works on the principle of targeting a focused beam of electrons…
What is Bright-field microscope A bright-field microscope, also known as a compound light microscope is among the simplest of optical microscopes. Optical microscopes employ visible light and a series of lenses to magnify the specimen and view it in detail. A bright-field microscope uses light rays to create a dark image against a bright background…
The advances in technology have enabled the development of powerful microscopes to view the samples at a nanometer level and thus were born the electron microscopes. What is Electron Microscope As the name suggests, an electron microscope utilizes a beam of accelerated electron to illuminate the sample to be viewed. Built first in 1931, the…
As the name suggests, a dissecting or a stereoscopic microscope helps in better viewing of samples while performing dissection. Dissecting microscope is an optical microscope that is used for low magnification of a sample. Typically, these microscopes are used with light being emanated from the surface of the sample rather than transmitting light through it….
Dating back to the 14th century, simple microscope is the most basic of the various microscopes available. It is a type of optical microscope that uses visible light and lens to magnify objects. Despite the fact that they are rudimentary imaging devices, simple microscope finds use in microbiology to study biological specimens and microscopic organisms…
A dark field microscope operates on the opposite principle of a brightfield microscope, and the entire field of view appears dark when there is no specimen and once a specimen is placed, it appears bright over this dark background. Hence the name dark field microscope. What is Dark field microscope A dark field microscope is…