Effective New Plasma Cleaning Strategies for Scanning Electron Microscopes and FIBs

Investigating Bacterial Pathogen-host Interaction by Using Scanning Electron Microscopes and Transmission Electron Microscopes

Electron microscopes have been widely used to investigate cell structures under high resolution. A scanning electron microscope (SEM) provides tridimensional images of a cell surface, while a transmission electron microscope (TEM) is commonly employed to observe the internal structure changes of host cells after bacterial adherence and invasion. The SEM and TEM can reveal bacterial location, bi...

Easy lens cleaning solution for laboratory microscopes.

The most widely used technique to clean the objectives of a microscope, especially the 100X objective, involves wiping out of immersion oil from the same and its surrounding mount by a piece of lens paper or a soft piece of clean cotton cloth followed by a cloth dampened with small amount of xylol. The oil immersion objective is then dried immediately and cleaned with lens paper. Objectives sho...

A Physics-Based Imaging Model of Scanning Electron Microscopes

Handheld devices generally provide the facility of text input through keys that are an inconvenient and slow way of input. Digitizing tablets and light pens, on the other hand provide a natural and convenient way of input. There are many online character recognizers for languages based on Roman and Chinese characters but there is no such commercial product for Urdu/Arabic text input. We present...

Characterization of a Miniature Electron Energy Analyzer for Scanning Electron Microscopes

Plasma Cleaning and Its Applications for Electron Microscopy.

: The effectiveness of applying a high-frequency, low-energy, reactive gas plasma for the removal of hydrocarbon contamination from specimens and components for electron microscopy has been investigated with a variety of analytical techniques. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) analysis of specimens that have been plasma cleaned shows an elimination of the carbonaceous contamination from th...