Thread: Electronic Microscope, a simple question...

Which is the highest resolution electronic microscope? Can anyone give me some details on this matter please? Thank you very much.

I don't recall offhand, but I do recall that different high-power microcopes have different uses and applications. Some are so powerful that you can't see what you are hoping to see, if that makes any sense.

What are you hoping to visualize?

Have a read of this...

http://www.nanooze.org/english/artic...icroscope.html


Then just when you thought that was it, you find a press release within the last few days...
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releas...-dot012208.php

Thanks.

I ended up finding this website

http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/b-online/e03/03e.htm

In case anyone needs it. : )


"The power of resolution of electron microscopy is usually restrained by the quality of the lens-systems and especially by the technique with which the preparation has been achieved. Modern gadgets have powers of resolution that range from 0,2 - 0,3 nm. The useful resolution is therefore around 300,000 x."

Of course this info is now outdated. According to that press release, the maximum resolution is now 0.5Angstrom.