While SEMs use many exotic parts, the Hitachi used relatively ... even finding gold in a uranium ore sample placed in the microscope. Now that old scanning electron microscopes being retired ...

I used to have access to some pretty nice Scanning Electron Microscopes (a SEM ... electrons is probably the easy part. The hard parts are drawing a very heavy vacuum, the need to do things ...

The high-energy beam interacts with air and hydrocarbons on the surface of the specimen, "pasting" the products onto parts in the column. This process eventually spoils the optical qualities of the ...

These work like the lenses in a regular light microscope or a camera. They help focus the electron beam onto the sample. Sample Stage: This is where the sample to be studied is placed. It can be moved ...