Choose Your Microscope

Widefield microscopes are available in different versions. Choose an upright microscope if your task is to analyze zebrafish embryos, stained tissue selections or brain slices. For tissue culture and quick assessments in routine research, the inverted microscope might be the better choice.

Generate three-dimensional and laterally precise images. With Stereo Microscope you observe large samples such as leafs and tissues or inspect rough material surfaces. Upgrade your microscope flexibly with different digital cameras and benefit from various types of illumination techniques.

• Large object fields
• Extended working distances

Confocal laser scanning microscopes scan samples sequentially point by point, or multiple points at once. The pixel information is assembled into an image. As a result you acquire optical sections with high contrast and high resolution in x, y and z.

To capture the essence of your sample, you often need to analyze it with more than one method. Going from the micro to nano scale can require to correlate light with electron microscopy (CLEM), or X-ray with FIB-SEM (CXF). Correlative microscopy from ZEISS gives you integrated solutions and seamless workflows. Decide for ZEISS as the sole provider of light, electron, ion and X-Ray microscopes and profit from long years of experience in correlative analysis. Choose unique sample centric correlation of images and data to advance your work beyond the limiting boundaries of a single microscopy technique.

Our modular software platforms enable you to acquire, process and analyze images in multiple dimensions and over various timepoints.

In contrast to digital cameras for photography or industrial inspection, many aspects of the microscope cameras are optimized to meet specific requirements of applications in science, research and documentation. As each application has very specific requirements, there is a wide range of different digital camera models to choose from. Different pixel sizes, for example, regulate camera sensitivity and spatial resolution. Lower pixel count enables higher frame rates and larger sensors offer better coverage of the field of view.

For maximum image quality, some Axiocam cameras feature low-noise electronic designs with cooled image sensors.

✔ Characterize the properties and behaviors of your materials non-destructively.
✔ Reveal details of microstructures in three dimensions (3D).
✔ Develop and confirm models or visualize structural details.
✔ Achieve high contrast and submicron resolution imaging even for relatively large samples.

Scanning Electron Microscopes (SEM) scan a sample with a focused electron beam and obtain images with information about the samples’ topography and composition.

CSEMs (conventional SEMs with a thermic electron source) and FE-SEMs (field emission SEMs with a field emission electron source) from ZEISS deliver high resolution imaging and superior materials contrast.

• High resolution surface sensitive information and materials contrast.
• Widely used in nanotechnology, materials research, life sciences, semiconductor, raw materials and industry.