Microscope: Need for Curiosity-A Review

  • Chidhananda R S, Srinivas Reddy Mungara, Phani Kumar Pullela, Srinivas S M, Anindita Ghosh
Keywords: Microscope Microscopy, Electron Microscope, Compound Microscope, Evaluation of Microscopes, SEM, TEM.

Abstract

Microscope is an age-old scientific tool which ruled science experiments. This offered a simple tool and mechanism for children to explore nature around them with their own hands. The advent of scientific developments in last five decades has newer technological advances with microscope’s ability to view, ascertain and conclude microstructures all the way to live virus visualization. This process of evolution of microscope from simple, complex, optical, electron, scanning electron, transmission electron etc., and current capability is to view ranges of 10-9 meters to 10-12 meters. The amazing scientific advances powered by microscope are numerous in domains of aviation, space, biomedical, metals, alloys and metallurgy, composites, botany and zoology etc. The movement of microscope from school bench to scientist’s lab has also resulted in a viewing microscope as a sophisticated tool and the basic purpose of including scientific curiosity is missing. This review focuses on broad overview of the journey of microscope and concludes with recent spurt in creation of miniature microscopes which bring back the power curiosity students to the hands of students

Published
2021-08-01
How to Cite
Srinivas S M, Anindita Ghosh, C. R. S. S. R. M. P. K. P. (2021). Microscope: Need for Curiosity-A Review. Design Engineering, 5800- 5813. Retrieved from http://www.thedesignengineering.com/index.php/DE/article/view/3076
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