Does the Scanning Electron Microscope Have an Objective Lens?

the scanning electron microscope

it is only thirteen years since the scanning electron microscope has been available commercially. yet, even in this short period of time, this instrument has been a powerful tool in the investigation of topography, electrical and magnetic properties, crystal structure, cathodoluminescent characteristics etc. of solid specimens. today, this type of microscope has opened its place alongside the c...

Superlensing microscope objective lens.

Conventional microscope objective lenses are diffraction limited; they cannot resolve subdiffraction features of a size smaller than 250-300 nm under white lighting condition. New innovations are required to overcome this limitation. In this paper, we propose and demonstrate a new superlensing objective lens that possesses a resolution of 100 nm, which is a two-times resolution improvement over...

The Scanning Confocal Electron Microscope

The Scanning Confocal Electron Microscope, is an instrument which permits the observation and characterization of sub-surface structures of thick, optically opaque materials at nanometer level resolutions. The instrument merges the capabilities of the scanning, transmission and x-ray microscopes, and achieves unprecedented resolutions in optically dense materials, by implementing the technology...

Modeling the acceleration field and objective lens for an aberration corrected photoemission electron microscope

The modeling of the optical properties of the acceleration field and objective lens of a photoemission electron microscope is presented. Theory to calculate the aberrations of the extraction field was derived, and extended to include relativistic effects. An analysis of the microscopes electron optical performance and aberrations has been performed using an analytical model as well as a raytrac...

Forensic Applications of the Scanning Electron Microscope