Sensor Links
Optical Microscopes
Microscopy-UK
microscope-depot
MicrobeHunter.com Microscopy Forum
Build Your Own Microscope: Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Prism-Based TIRF Microscope
Molecular Expressions Microscopy Primers
Compatibility of Microscope Components

Objectives and Objective Adapters
RafCamera

Lense Adapters
Making Digital Camera Microscope Adapters, includes specifications on C and T mount threads
Microscopy Optomechanics, ThorLabs

Macro Adapters
LM-Scope Macro Lenses

Digital Cameras
DSLR Cameras for Microscopy Rankings

Webcams
Use of the Logitech Quickcam Pro 9000
Microscope Pictures and Videos

Measurement
100µ ~ 1 µ - 200nm (Abbe Limit)
About microscopes, measurements and meters (and electronics in between), µm resolution for objectives
Openstage: A Low-Cost Motorized Microscope Stage with Sub-Micron Positioning Accuracy

Lense Making
The Challenge of Grinding Lenses for Single Lens Microscopes
A Novel Method for Making Miniature Lenses
Measuring the Magnification of Homemade Simple Microscope Lenses

PUMA
Puma youtube
Puma Github
Puma Hackaday

Interoferometry Assemblies
interferometric measurement of surface microstructure

Stanford Light Field Microscope Project

Structured Illumination
Open-source microscope add-on for structured illumination microscopy
Application of Structured Illumination in Nano-Scale Vision
Resolving Power Improvement for Optical Nano-Defect Measurement by using Sub-Pixel Sampling based on Structured Illumination Shift Method
ZEISS Online Campus | Structured Illumination References

Phase Contrast
breaking the diffraction limit of light, part 1
Phase contrast microscopy
Synthetic aperture confocal imaging

Superlens
Perfect Lense
Negative index metamaterials
Molecular Scale Imaging with a Smooth Superlens
Microspheres
Tiny Spheres Turn Regular Microscopes Into Nanoscopes

Near Field & Evanescent (< λ) - SNOM (Scanning Near-Field Optical Microscopy)
Olympus Microscopy Resource Center Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscopy
Near and Far Field

SNOM Probes
Focussed ion beam machined cantilever aperture probes for near-field optical imaging
Fiber tip etch

Sarfus

Digital holography microscopy
Dual-wavelength digital holographic microscopy with sub-nanometer accuracy
3D Object Detection in Digital Holographic Microscope Images


Microlens Array
Polydimethylsiloxane Microlens Arrays Fabricated Through Liquid-Phase Photopolymerization and Molding, syringe pump, tubing and film
Magnetically actuated MEMS microlens scanner for in vivo medical imaging
Digital holographic characterization of liquid micro-lenses array fabricated in electrode-less configuration
Refractive Microlens Fabrication by Ink-Jet Process
Polymer-Dispersed Liquid Crystals
A 3D Multi-Aperture Image Sensor Architecture


IC Sensors
Piclist Cameras
Machine Vision: CCD

CCD + Board
Elphel 303/313/323/333 cameras.
CCDImager, Atmel32 + TC237B CCD
Audine
The Audine Project, Building a CCD Camera, KAF-0400 (Kodak) CCD
The AudiNet Interface, ethernet for Audine

CCD ICs
Sony ICX098 Datasheet to reduce or eliminate CCD read-out noise.

CMOS Sensor + Board
SparkFun Light / Imaging
Open ARM9 SBC, Atmel AT91RM9200 ARM9 + Micron MT9T001 CMOS + Altera Cyclone FPGA
OV6620 + Atmel AVR ATmega16
Sparkfun forum thread
AVRCam
Leopard Beagleboard
CMOS Digital Camera Controller and Frame Capture Device
CAM3908 Mini Color Camera Head User Manual

CMOS ICs
Omnivision, OVXXX CMOS
A CMOS Area Image Sensor With Pixel Level A/D Conversion
Nanoimprint Lithography
New Image Sensor Chips for Robotics and Embedded Vision

Active Pixel Sensors (APS)
An Active Pixel Sensor Fabricated Using CCD/CMOS Technology

Sub Pixels

EM Packet Phase and Structure
Chandra's SPD .pdfs
Computer-based photon-counting lock-in for phase detection at the shot-noise limit
Introduction to Phase Contrast Microscopy


SPM
Atomic microscope Open Circuits
Links: Experimental Tools for Materials Study at Atomic and Nano Scale

Measurement
1µ (1000nm) ~ 1pm (.001nm)
PSD: PD & Differential Amplifier

Piezo
Piezoelectric motors: big power, small package
Piezoelectric Actuators
PCBMotor
Piezoelectric deformable mirror driven by unimorph actuator arrays on multi-spatial layers
Disk Scanner
Design of Unimorph Type 3DOF Ultrasonic Motor
Low-cost, open-source XYZ nanopositioner for high-precision analytical application

STM
Getting Started on Home Brewing an STM
Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM)
The Scanning Tunneling Electron Microscope
Build Your Own Scanning Tunneling Microscope, Slashdot Page
STM Mechanics - Homebuilt Scanning Tunneling Microscope, Mechanical Design
Home-Built STM
The IAP/TU Wien STM Gallery
STM Tip Making
Tungsten Tips
Recipe for STM Tip Electrochemcial Etch of Tungsten Wire in KOH
Superconducting Tips
STM Manipulation

AFM
The Teaching AFM
ME597 Lecture 14: Introduction to dynamic AFM, video
AFM/Optical Microscope Calibration and Alignment Tool, video
Cantilevers
Where to buy: AFM Probes, afmhelp.com
BudgetSensors Probes, starting @$200


Particle Beams
TEM
Progress on a home-made transmission electron microscope
Structure and function of the electron microscope, youtube.com video

SEM
DIY scanning electron microscope - Overview video
Gripping a silicon a silicon nanowire in the scanning electron microscope

Electron Beam
Electron Optics

MEMS
Multibeam Electron Source using MEMS Electron Optical Components


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