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Stereoscopic Microscope
Biological Microscopes And The Processes Of Life
When you want to study living organisms and their life processes, one of the best equipments to perform the job are the biological microscopes. Under their lenses, you can see through to the cells and their components, often in full color. These microscopes can range from the very simple setups used in schools and homes for students to learn their biology lessons to the very advanced systems used in forensic medicine, cell research and molecular studies.
Common Configurations
Depending on the intended uses and applications, biological microscopes can be purchased in three common configurations - student, benchtop and research. Of course, each one offers varying resolution and magnification, among other characteristics.
First, the student microscopes are the cheapest and smallest although it must be emphasized that their capabilities for advanced techniques and documentation are excellent value for your money. If you have a student in your home that has interest in the biological processes, then it is a great investment towards enhancing said interest.
Second, the benchtop microscopes have their applications in animal husbandry and textile manufacture. Although these systems can perform many techniques, their major limitation is that said techniques cannot be done simultaneously.
Third, the research microscopes are the largest and the most expensive, with weights ranging from 30 kilos to 50 kilos. Of course, these biological microscopes are used in advanced research, thanks to the complexity of their mechanical, electronic and optical systems. In fact, you can use a research microscope for large specimens and perform simultaneous techniques on it.
With these set-ups, it is often easier to know what you want in a biological microscope depending on its planned applications and uses.
Types of Technologies
There are many types of technologies for biological microscopes, too. You can choose compound microscopes for observing very small specimens like pond samples, cells and other microscopic forms of life. These are usually the most common type found in schools and homes.
You also have the inverted microscopes for thicker specimens like cultured cells in Petri dishes. This is because the lenses can be manipulated to get as close as possible to the bottom of the Petri dish where the microscopic cells grow. And then there are stereoscopic microscopes for viewing ancient fossils and recent carcasses of insect specimens.
Of course, there are advanced technologies for biological microscopes like acoustic and ultrasonic microscopes, fluorescent microscopes, portable field microscopes, microwave microscopes, polarizing microscopes, scanning electron (SEM) microscopes, laser microscopes, transmission electron microscopes (TEM) and scanning probe or atomic force microscopes (SPM / AFM).
Types of Eyepiece Styles
In many ways, eyepiece styles are also very important in the choice of a biological microscope especially as you might be spending hours at a time looking through said eyepiece. You can choose from three basic types - monocular, binocular and trinocular. Monocular microscopes have only one objective and one body tube while binocular types have double eyepieces. Trinocular microscopes are made with binocular eyepieces and a vertical tube at the top. You must choose the one that places lesser strain on your eyes.
With this information in hand, you will be able to choose wisely from amongst many types of biological microscopes according to your budget and needs.
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Do you know about microscopes?
Compare and contrast the light and stereoscopic microscopes. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each microscope?
A microscope (Greek: μικρόν (micron) = small + σκοπεῖν (skopein) = to look at) is an instrument for viewing objects that are too small to be seen by the naked or unaided eye. The science of investigating small objects using such an instrument is called microscopy, and the term microscopic means minute or very small, not easily visible with the unaided eye. In other words, requiring a microscope to examine. Microscopes give us a large image of a tiny object. The microscopes we use in school and at home trace their history back almost 400 years.
The first useful microscope was developed in the Netherlands in the early 1600s.[citation needed] There is almost as much confusion about the inventor as about the dates. Three different eyeglass makers have been given credit for the invention: Hans Lippershey (who also developed the first real telescope); Hans Janssen; and his son, Zacharias.
The most common type of microscope—and the first to be invented—is the optical microscope. This is an optical instrument containing one or more lenses that produce an enlarged image of an object placed in the focal plane of the lens(es). There are, however, many other microscope designs.
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1 Types
1.1 Optical microscopes
1.2 Electron microscopes
1.3 Scanning probe microscope
1.4 Point-projection microscopes
1.5 Other microscopes
2 See also
Types
A 1915 Bausch and Lomb Optical microscope.Microscopes can largely be separated into two classes, optical theory microscopes and scanning probe microscopes.
Optical theory microscopes are microscopes which function through the optical theory of lenses in order to magnify the image generated by the passage of a wave through the sample. The waves used are either electromagnetic in optical microscopes or electron beams in electron microscopes. The types are the Compound Light, Stereo, and the electron microscope.
Optical microscopes
Main article: Optical microscope
A stereo microscope is often used for lower-power magnification on large subjects.Optical microscopes, through their use of visible wavelengths of light, are the simplest and hence most widely used type of microscope. Recent research has shown (see Brian J. Ford's research on simple microscopes) that even simple microscopes, those with a single small lens, gave amazingly clear images to the earliest microscopists. Today compound microscopes, i.e., especially those with a series of lenses, serve uses in many fields of science, particularly biology and geology.
Optical microscopes use refractive lenses, typically of glass and occasionally of plastic, to focus light into the eye or another light detector. Typical magnification of a light microscope is up to 1500x with a theoretical resolution of around 0.2 micrometres. Specialised techniques (e.g., scanning confocal microscopy) may exceed this magnification but the resolution is an insurmountable diffraction limit.
Other microscopes which use electromagnetic wavelengths not visible to the human eye are often called optical microscopes. The most common of these, due to its high resolution yet no requirement for a vacuum like electron microscopes, is the x-ray microscope.
Main articles: Optical microscope and microscopy
Electron microscopes
Main article: Electron Microscope
Electron microscopeElectron microscopes, which use beams of electrons instead of light, are designed for very high magnification usage. Electrons, which have a much smaller wavelength than visible light, allow a much higher resolution. The main limitation of the electron beam is that it must pass through a vacuum as air molecules would otherwise scatter the beam.
Instead of relying on refraction, lenses for electron microscopes are specially designed electromagnets which generates magnetic fields that are approximately parallel to the direction that electrons travel. The electrons are typically detected by a phosphor screen, photographic film or a CCD.
Two major variants of electron microscopes exist:
Scanning electron microscope: looks at the surface of bulk objects by scanning the surface with a fine electron beam and measuring reflection. May also be used for spectroscopy.
Transmission electron microscope: passes electrons completely through the sample, analogous to basic optical microscopy. This requires careful sample preparation, since electrons are scattered so strongly by most materials. It can also obtain detailed information on the sample's crystallography through selected area diffraction.
Scanning probe microscope
In scanning probe microscopy (SPM), a physical probe is used either in close contact to the sample or nearly touching it. By rastering the probe across the sample, and by measuring the interactions between the sharp tip of the probe and the sample, a micrograph is generated. The exact nature of the interactions between the probe and the sample determines exactly what kind of SPM is being used. Because this kind of microscopy relies on the interactions between the tip and the sample, it generally only measures information about the surface of the sample.
Some kinds of SPMs are:
Atomic force microscope
Scanning tunneling microscope
Electric force microscope
Magnetic force microscope (MFM)
Near-field scanning optical microscope
Point-projection microscopes
The field emission microscope, field ion microscope, and the Atom Probe are examples of point-projection microscopes where ions are excited from a needle-shaped specimen and hit a detector. The Atom-Probe Tomograph (APT) is the most modern incarnation and allows a three-dimensional atom-by-atom (with chemical elements identified) reconstruction with sub-nanometer resolution.
Other microscopes
Acoustic microscopes use sound waves to measure variations in acoustic impedance. Similar to SONAR in principle, they are used for such jobs as detecting defects in the subsurfaces of materials including those found in integrated circuits.
Inspecting a blueberry (and seed) with a stereo microscope, about 90X