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Types
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Components
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Limitations
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Overview
- Microscope
- Visible light Visible spectrum
- Lenses Lens (optics)
- Resolution Optical resolution
- Contrast Contrast (vision)
- Eyepieces Eyepiece
- Objective Objective (optics)
- Stereo microscope
- Micrograph
- Bright field Bright-field microscopy
- Dark field Dark-field microscopy
- Polarised light
- Phase-contrast imaging
- Nanometers
- Diffraction limit
- Scanning electron microscopy
- Transmission electron microscopy
- Scanning probe microscopy
- Oil-immersion objectives Oil-immersion objective
- Index-matching material
- Immersion oil
- Point spread function
- Distance
- Wavelength
- Fluorescence microscopy
- Limit of resolution Limit of resolution?action=edit&redlink=1
- Diameter
- Molecules
- Light emission
- GFP Green fluorescent protein
Types
- Optical power
- Research
- Digital microscopes Digital microscope
- Virtual image
- Magnifying glass
- Loupes Loupe
- Telescopes Telescope
- Real image
- Angular size
- Near point distance Near point
- Phase contrast
- Comparison microscope
- Inverted microscope
- Traveling microscope
- Petrographic microscope
- Polarizing microscope
- Phase-contrast microscope
- Epifluorescence microscope
- Confocal microscope
- Two-photon microscope Two-photon excitation microscopy
- Ultramicroscope
- Light scattering
- Electron microscopes Electron microscope
- Tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy
- Digital camera
- Computer
- Histological Histology
- USB microscopes USB microscope
- Webcams Webcam
- Macro lens
History
- Eyeglasses
- Cornelis Drebbel
- Dutch Dutch people
- Zacharias Janssen
- Hans Lippershey
- Galileo Galilei
- Giovanni Faber
- Accademia dei Lincei
- Greek Greek language
- Christiaan Huygens
- Achromatically Achromatic lens
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
- John Leonard Riddell
- Tulane University
- Cholera
- August Köhler
- Köhler illumination
- Lightbulb
- Nobel Prize
- Frits Zernike
- Interference Interference (wave propagation)
- Absorption Absorption (electromagnetic radiation)
- Mammalian
- Georges Nomarski
- Differential interference contrast
- Fluorescent
- Probes Hybridization probe
- DAPI
- DNA
- Immunofluorescence
Components
- Light
- Mirror
- Condenser Condenser (microscope)
- Apochromatic Apochromat
- Objective lenses Objective lens
- Parfocal Parfocal lens
- Focus Focus (optics)
- Magnification
- Numerical aperture
- Focal lengths Focal length
- Depth of field
- Slides Microscope slide
- Halogen lamp
- Lasers Laser
- Diaphragm Diaphragm (optics)
- Dark field
Operation
- Cross-polarized light Polarized light microscopy
- Sarfus
- Tissue paper
- Absorbance
- Polarized Polarization (waves)
- Scattered Scattered radiation
- Epifluorescence microscopy
- Confocal microscopy
- Microspectroscopy Ultraviolet–visible spectroscopy
Applications
- Medical diagnosis
- Histopathology
- Smear tests Smear test
- Eye strain Asthenopia
- Window Optical window
- Reticle
- Crosshairs
Limitations
- Diffraction
- Airy disks Airy disk
- Diffraction limit Diffraction-limited system
- Green
- Air Earth's atmosphere
- Vertico SMI
- Near field scanning optical microscopy
- Evanescent waves
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Eric Betzig
- William Moerner
- Fluorescence microscopy Fluorescence microscope
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Nodes166
Edges165
Triples44
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.012048
Components1
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Optical microscope
Top relations
related to Components · 11
Optical microscope → All, Coarse, Diaphragm, Eyepiece, Fine, Focus, In, Light, Mechanical, Objective, Stage
related to Objective lens · 7
Optical microscope → At, Microscope, Objective, Some, The, These, Typically
related to Other microscope variants · 6
Optical microscope → Comparison, Fiber, Inverted, Some, Stereo, There
related to Magnification · 3
Optical microscope → For, Modified, The
related to Types · 3
Optical microscope → Compound, The, There
is a · 1
Optical microscope → product of the powers of the eyepiece and the objective lens
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Important terminology
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Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Optical microscope | is a | product of the powers of the eyepiece and the objective lens | 0.90 | text |
| the magnifying glass | instance of | The use of a single convex lens or groups of lenses are found in simple magnification devices | 0.80 | text |
| loupes | instance of | The use of a single convex lens or groups of lenses are found in simple magnification devices | 0.80 | text |
| and eyepieces for telescopes | instance of | The use of a single convex lens or groups of lenses are found in simple magnification devices | 0.80 | text |
| microscopes | instance of | The use of a single convex lens or groups of lenses are found in simple magnification devices | 0.80 | text |
| immersion oil or water | instance of | These are used with index-matching material | 0.80 | text |
| a matched cover slip between the objective lens | instance of | These are used with index-matching material | 0.80 | text |
| the sample | instance of | These are used with index-matching material | 0.80 | text |
| the use of oil or ultraviolet light can increase the resolution | instance of | Modified environments | 0.80 | text |
| allow for resolved details at magnifications larger than 1 | instance of | Modified environments | 0.80 | text |
| 000x | instance of | Modified environments | 0.80 | text |
| electron or X-ray microscopy use a vacuum or partial vacuum | instance of | methods | 0.80 | text |
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