The best microscopes for students should combine affordability with high-quality optics, offering enough features for learners to meet their educational goals without breaking the bank.

Compound Microscope: The microscope delivers impressive detail and clarity with a 10x wide field eyepiece, and a set of 4x, 10x, and 40x objective lenses. Transmitted Illumination: A 5 watt ...

It wasn’t that long ago that if you had an optical microscope in your electronics ... We also liked that the scope has a remote control so you can operate it without touching it.

We measured the optical resolution of the best spotting scopes using a resolution target developed by the Air Force. Scott Einsmann Just as with our other Optics Test categories, we put all ...

While this isn’t a comprehensive review of all the thermal sights on the market, it’s a pretty good collection of new products that were submitted for Outdoor Life’s benchmark optics test ... our ...

Like many DIY projects, this microscope is built from old DVD parts, specifically the pickup heads. The precision optics in these commonly available assemblies, which are good enough to read pits ...

The Zeiss LSM 780 is a multi-purpose, visible light confocal laser scanning microscope. It is equipped with a 34 channel spectral array with laser lines at 405nm, 458nm, 488nm, 514nm, 561nm, 594nm and ...

The Zeiss LSM 880 with Airyscan FAST is a multi-purpose, visible light super-resolution/confocal laser scanning microscope. It is equipped with a 34 channel spectral array with laser lines at 405nm, ...

Introduction to SNOM: The Scanning Near-field Optical Microscope (SNOM) stands as a pivotal analytical tool in nanotechnology, enabling the visualization of nanostructures with resolution beyond the ...

What is the Diffraction Limit? The diffraction limit is a fundamental barrier in optical microscopy that sets the minimum size of features that can be resolved using conventional light microscopes. It ...