Transcript microscopy

Created by Dominik Naróg & Mateusz Zaucha
The most important
 Short history
 Optical microscope
 Transmission electron miscroscope
 Scanning electrone miscroscope
 Some curiosities
The history of optical
microscopy
 Invented by Dutch spectacle-makers Hans
Janssen and his son Zacharias Janssen (1590)
or Galileo Galilei (1609)
 Christian Huygens developed a simple
2-lens ocular system in the late 17th century
that was achromatically corrected
The oldest (1630) published image known to have been made with a
microscope
Development
Köhler illumination (XIX century)
A better and more visible image is seen due to the halogen lamp and a
big amount of lenses.
Components of the optical
microscope
Ocular lense
Objective turret
Stage
coarse
adjustment
Fine adjustment
Optical element
Frame
Diaphragm and
condenser lens
Light source
Old & New
Modern light
source
Mirror reflecting sun rays
Electron microscope
Prototype
constructed
(400x
magnification)
by Max Knoll
and Ernst
Ruskain 1931
Transmission
electron
microscope
(1939 – Siemens)
contemporary
electron
microscope
(2 000 000x
magnification)
Scanning eletron
microscope (1937
- Manfred von
Ardenne)
TEM
emits
electrons
An electron
beam is
created
It is condensed
through the
lenses and
reaches the
specimen
The beam is
then diffused
and reaches
the screen
where the
image is
preserved
SEM
deflector*
*it changes the direction of the beam
The condensor and
objective are
condensing the
electron beam
The electron
beam reaches
the sample
which is
covered with a
gold layer
The reflected
electrons are caught
by the detector and
it changes the
electron energy into
an electric impulse
Electron microscope from
the University of Gdańsk
The inside part of the
microscope
How is the sample prepared?
It must be dried
with a special drier
using liquid CO2
Ready to
research
samples must
be kept in dry
conditions
Here the dry
sample is being
covered with 24
carate gold
Pictures made by electron
microscopes
Pillies of a vorticella
Ant head
Curiosities
 USB optical microscope
 The best microscope in the
World is „Titan Microscope”. It cost 15 mln $ and
with it you can see even small electrons in
atoms
Thank you for
your attention
Dominik Naróg & Mateusz Zaucha