Electron microscopes use a focused beam of electrons instead of light to "image" the specimen and gain information as to its structure and composition. Common types of information yielded are ...

SEM stands for scanning electron microscope. The SEM is a microscope that uses electrons instead of light to form an image. Since their development in the early 1950's, scanning electron microscopes ...

Scanning electron microscopy is a general type of electron microscopy that generates a topological image of a sample using a beam of electrons to achieve much higher spatial resolution than light ...

Transmission electron microscopy is a general type of electron microscopy that generates an image of the internal structure of a thin sample using a beam of electrons to achieve much higher ...

The scanning electron microscope is a type of electron microscope that produces images of a sample by scanning it with a high-energy beam of electrons. The SEM is significantly more powerful than ...

When all you’ve got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. And when you’ve got a scanning electron microscope, everything must look like a sample that would be really, really interesting ...

Much like the traditional scanning electron microscope (SEM), the field emission scanning electron microscope uses electrons to illuminate a sample, instead of visible light as is used in optical ...