Scanning transmission electron microscopy, or STEM, is a powerful imaging technique that enables researchers to study a material’s morphology, composition, and bonding behavior at the angstrom scale.

Have you ever wondered what makes shark skin so tough and sleek? It's dermal denticles—tiny, tooth-like structures that cover a shark's skin. Made of the same material as teeth and shaped like small ...

A unique laboratory at Michigan Tech captured microscopic photography of snowflakes in a demonstration of the lab's high-powered scanning electron microscope. The Applied Chemical and Morphological ...

Scanning electron microscope image of a Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacterium, destroyed by nanopillars, on a cicada wing. Scale bar is 1 micrometer. Credit: Yutao Chen. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert!

Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) traditionally yields high-resolution two-dimensional micrographs, leaving surface topology and depth information inaccessible. Three-dimensional reconstruction ...

Tim McCoy (right), the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History curator of meteorites and the co-lead author on the new paper, with Cari Corrigan (left) sein a scanning electron microscopy lab ...

Since the first transmission electron microscope was sold in 1935, microscopes that use electrons--rather than light waves--to image objects have brought into focus levels of detail that were ...

Electron microscopy is a powerful technique that provides high-resolution images by focusing a beam of electrons to reveal fine structural details in biological and material specimens. 2 Because ...

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--JEOL Ltd. (TOKYO:6951) (President & COO Izumi Oi) announces the release of a new scanning electron microscope (SEM), the JSM-IT700HR for unprecedentedly high throughput in ...

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 1950s, scanning electron microscopes ...