Phase-contrast microscopy articles from across Nature Portfolio. Atom; RSS Feed; Definition. Phase contrast microscopy is a white-light optical microscopy technique that relies on sample-induced ...

Microscope resolution with ultraviolet light. UV microscopy uses UV light as the source for the microscope, rather than visible light. UV light has a wavelength between 180 and 400 nm, which is ...

A new microscopy method, light-microscopy-based connectomics (LICONN), has been developed by scientists at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) and Google Research, and could now ...

Over the years, new technologies—from incorporating pinholes into light paths to gene editing samples for fluorescence expression—have allowed researchers to push the bounds of light microscopy.

An artist's representation of the new Brillouin microscopy approach that allows entire light-sheets to interact with 3D biological samples. The scattered light reveals a unique optical ...

Screenshot of the Zygo white light interferometry microscope software. (Credit: Huygens Optics) White light interferometry (WLI) is a contact-free optical method for measuring surface height.

The first light-sheet microscope was created in 1903 by Siedentopf & Zsigmondy. 2 Their goal to analyze sub-resolution gold particles earned them the first-ever Nobel prize awarded for a ...

The advance represents a 1,000-fold improvement in speed and throughput in Brillouin microscopy and provides a way to view light-sensitive organisms more efficiently, according to Carlo Bevilacqua ...

Light microscopes use light and mirrors and can see things as small as 400 nanometers. ... Here's an amoeba engulfing red blood cells and red and white blood cells moving through a tiny blood vessel.

In the case of techniques like fluorescence microscopy, they deal with specific light sources on a black background. Hence, m-rBCR uses the frequency representation as the starting point.

Scientists developed a new microscope based on Brillouin scattering -- a phenomenon where light interacts with naturally occurring thermal vibrations within materials, from which their mechanical ...