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This web page, part of the Virtual Microscope Project, features interactive animations that illustrate the basics of imaging in the Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), the Fluorescence Light Microscope (LM), and the Atomic Force Microscope (AFM). Also included are videos demonstrating how to prepare samples for each type of microscope. Don't miss the interviews with scientists who discuss career paths that utilize microscopy in both the public and private sectors.

The Virtual Microscope provides cost-free simulated scientific instrumentation for students and researchers worldwide as part of NASA's Virtual Laboratory initiative. This site supports and shares data from all three instruments: SEM, LM, and AFM. Automated data capture software is shared with users via a Java application that provides a simulation of the group's actual microscope interfaces. The magnification controls allow the user to explore any point of interest on the sample and provides access to a robust set of specimen annotation tools.

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AFM, AFM tutorial, SEM, SEM tutorial, SPM, electron microscope, instrumentation, light microscope tutorial, light microscopy, microscopy, microscopy careers, microscopy tutorial, nanotechnology, scanning probe microscope
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Topic: Particles and Interactions and the Standard Model
Unit Title: Microscopy: Observing at the Nanoscale

What is microscopy and what sort of careers are available to a microscopist? This web page features animated tutorials that illustrate the basics of the Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), and the Scanning Probe Microscope (SPM). It includes interviews with practicing scientists from a wide variety of fields, who talk about career paths that utilize microscopy.

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Link to the main website of Virtual Microscope, which includes instructions for downloading the software for sharing datasets produced by the group's scanning and probing microscopes.

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