Microscopy and Analysis

Welcome to Microscopy and Analysis

Furthering the interests of microscopy worldwide

Welcome to our new website! I hope you will like the new look and functionality of our website with its elegant design, easy navigation, interactive capability, and the three new channels for light, electron and scanning probe microscopy.

Dr Julian P. Heath, FRMS, Editor of Microscopy and Analysis

Microscopy and Analysis is published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd, and is the premier free international journal for all who work with the instruments, techniques and applications of microscopy, imaging and compositional analysis to further our understanding of the biomedical, chemical, materials and physical sciences. We have 46,000 subscribers and 120,000 readers worldwide.

Light

The light or optical microscope is the most common type of microscope, using glass lenses to focus beams of visible, infrared and ultraviolet electromagnetic radiation for imaging and compositional analysis at a typical resolution of 0.2 µm. Superresolution or sub-diffraction techniques can now resolve fluorescent objects below 50 nm.

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Light Channel of M&A

Electron, Ion & X-ray

Electron and ion microscopes use magnetic or electrostatic lenses to focus beams of charged particles for imaging and compositional analysis at an atomic resolution of below 0.1 nm. This channel also includes X-ray microscopy, atom probe microscopy and other high resolution imaging technology.

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Electron Channel of M&A

Scanning Probe

The scanning probe microscope scans a sharp probe extremely close to a specimen to produce a three-dimensional map of surface topography properties at nanometre or atomic resolution. Virtually any chemical, mechanical and physical property of a specimen can be investigated and mapped using SPM.

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Scanning Probe Channel of M&A