Explore: Optical Microscopy

Alternatives to optical microscopy which do not use visible light include scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy and scanning

microscopy: optical, electron, and scanning probe microscopy, along with the emerging field of X-ray microscopy.[citation needed] Optical microscopy and

Confocal microscopy, most frequently confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) or laser scanning confocal microscopy (LSCM), is an optical imaging technique

Super-resolution microscopy is a series of techniques in optical microscopy that allow such images to have resolutions higher than those imposed by the

Abbe and "limits an optical microscope's resolution to approximately half of the wavelength of the light used." Fluorescence microscopy is central to many

a nanometer, more than 1000 times better than the optical diffraction limit. Atomic force microscopy (AFM) gathers information by "feeling" or "touching"

objective lenses have a NA that is variable from 0.7 to 1.25. In optical microscopy, dark-field describes an illumination technique used to enhance the

Phase-contrast microscopy (PCM) is an optical microscopy technique that converts phase shifts in light passing through a transparent specimen to brightness

Two-photon excitation microscopy (TPEF or 2PEF) is a fluorescence imaging technique that is particularly well-suited to image scattering living tissue

of microscopy techniques include: Optical microscopy Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) Field ion microscopy (FIM)