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Scanning optical microscopy
Abstract
The scanning optical microscope, provides new information about a wide variety of specimens. The confocal mode provides a form of super‐resolution and allows the depth of field of the microscope to be tuned at will, and extended, in principle, without limit. The instrument is particularly advantageous for the study of materials and devices, especially semiconductors. The image is built up on a cathode ray tube display by mechanically scanning the object across a focussed spot.
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“A detection numerical aperture (NA) of 0.6 is used; lower NA values do not sufficiently resolve signals from adjacent voxels, whereas higher NA values introduce more significant spherical aberration with depth34–36.”
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- Authors
- Wilson, T.
- Affiliations
- University of Oxford (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Wilson, T.
- Venue
- Scanning
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1985-01
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 79-87
- ISSN
- 0161-0457 (ISSN-L)
- 1932-8745
- OpenAlex
- W2156199518
- Cited by
- 87
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 2 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 1
- FWCI
- 2.26
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Scanning (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Biophysics › Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Near-Field Optical Microscopy
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Advanced optical system design
- Keywords
- scanning optical microscope, confocal microscopy, super-resolution, depth of field, CRT display, mechanical scanning, semiconductors
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