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Protect Your Microscope from Disruptive Acoustic Noise

Researchers select Herzan acoustic enclosures for their unparalleled acoustic isolation performance, ease of customization, and positive recommendations from colleagues. Herzan enclosures represent over 20 years of proven and thoughtful design, focused on user’s application needs. With hundreds of enclosures worldwide, Herzan uniquely understands how to best attenuate noise and help microscopes meet specification in difficult … Continue reading

January 26, 2023 Blog, Herzan, Optomechanics

What is Time-Resolved Electron Microscopy?

Electron microscopy (EM) is a powerful imaging technique renowned for its outstanding spatial resolution. It surpasses the theoretical maximum resolving power of conventional microscopy by several orders of magnitude. This enables researchers to probe nanoscale structures and to resolve the chemical composition of samples with unprecedented precision. However, standard EM systems are typically unsuited to … Continue reading

July 11, 2022 Blog, Laser Quantum, Lasers

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Vibration Isolation Solutions Eliminate SPM Noise

In industries such as bioengineering, materials science, and nanotechnology where highly sensitive equipment and instruments such as Scanning Probe Microscopes (SPMs) are used, even trace amounts of vibration noise can affect the quality of images and data. There are a wide range of probes used in scanning probe microscopy, and the information gathered can take … Continue reading

September 14, 2021 Blog, Herzan, Optomechanics

Cost-Efficient Open Source Laser Engine for Microscopy

In a paper published in Biomedical Optics Express, entitled “Cost-efficient open source laser engine for microscopy”, the authors explain how they developed a cost-efficient, open source laser engine for fluorescence microscopy. Their experimental setup included a powerful diode-pumped solid-state laser (DPSS) gem 561 laser (561 nm, 500 mW) from Laser Quantum. To read the full … Continue reading

August 18, 2020 Blog, Laser Quantum, Lasers

Achieving Higher Resolution and Faster Sampling in Microscopy

Fluorescence microscopy is a continually developing tool for imaging biological samples; however, the same challenges face the entire the microscopy world: High-resolution levels Faster sampling rates Lattice light-sheet microscopy (LLSM) is a technique that employs scanning a sample as a plane of laser light. A second excitation lens is placed on a perpendicular axis to … Continue reading

September 25, 2019 Blog, Laser Quantum, Lasers

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Herzan Introduces Latest Vibration Isolation Table TS-C30

The TS-C30 active vibration isolation table is the latest innovation from the TS Series, offering substantial active vibration isolation performance for researchers operating compact, nanoscale microscopes. The TS-C30 is also Herzan’s most affordable active vibration isolation table available, delivering greater value for researchers requiring low-frequency vibration isolation and a slate of features directly benefiting their … Continue reading

September 25, 2019 Blog, Herzan, Optomechanics