A laser (purple) is powerfully amplified by highly polished mirrors and focused on the electron beam (blue) to shift its ...

Imagine owning a camera so powerful it can take freeze-frame photographs of a moving electron – an object traveling so fast it could circle the Earth many times in a second. Researchers at the ...

Electron microscopy (EM) has become an indispensable tool for investigating the nanoscale structure of a large range of materials, across physical and life sciences. It is vital for characterisation ...

Secondary electron e-beam induced current (SEEBIC) imaging using a scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) can reveal material properties such as electrical conductivity, connectivity, and ...

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) can help scientists determine the three-dimensional structure of proteins in unprecedented detail. Jacques Dubochet, former group leader at EMBL, shared the 2017 ...

Imagine owning a camera so powerful it can take freeze-frame photographs of a moving electron—an object traveling so fast it could circle the Earth many times in a matter of a second. Researchers at ...

Fifteen years ago, physicists worked out a method to increase image contrast by hitting the electron imaging beam with an ...

Working on the nanoscale for manufacturing poses some unique challenges. While many macroscale manufacturing methods such as lithography and additive manufacturing have been successfully translated ...

Today we are machining some metal inside the scanning electron microscope! By creating a custom fixture, we can manually ...

The motion of whizzing electrons has been captured like never before. Researchers have developed a laser-based microscope that snaps images at attosecond — or a billionth of a billionth of a second — ...

The FEI Philips XL 40 Environmental Scanning Microscope (ESEM) is a large-chamber, tungsten source, environmental scanning electron microscope capable of high and low vacuum imaging. The FEI Philips ...