but a record-breaking modern iteration finally achieved what physicists have waited decades to see—for the first time, a transmission electron microscope is capturing an electron with such ...

Stereomicroscopes are not sexy. They lack the power of modern compound instruments, the novelty value of a confocal, and the imposing presence of an electron microscope. They are routinely put to such ...

Figure 1: Basic compound microscope: Light from a source is focused onto the sample (object) using a mirror and condenser lens. Light from the sample is collected by an objective, forming an ...