Online Courses Handbook 2003

1735 (v.4) Principles of Microscopy 101

Area:	Department of Applied Physics
Contact Hours:	3.0
Credits:	12.5
Lecture:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Laboratory:	2 x 1 Hours Weekly
Optical microscopy - components, care and maintenance, theory, light sources, Kohler illumination, lenses, eyepieces, resolution and depth of field. Contrast methods of bright field, incident light, dark field, phase contrast, fluorescence. Stereomicroscopy and photomicrography. Electron microscopy. Secondary electron, back scattered electron and x-ray detection in the scanning electron microscope, signal processing, data presentation.