SEMS are wonderful surface machines.  Not optical but electron scatter
sensing.
The company I worked for developed two designs for semiconductor IC work.

It would be good to see surface texture and if it had good software
maybe materials.

The Nano shells - those 1/1000 that of the MICRO those 1/1000 that of
Milli shells would
be easy to get picture of the shape and perhaps shading.

I think most of us would want a BIO-Medical 3 port scope.  One for a camera.

Martin

Wiggers wrote:
> Indeed, it is no ordinary microscope, it is a SEM... and it states
> that the=
> re is no need for sample coating, that=C2=B4s odd. Usually SEM needs a
> coat=
> ing (usually gold) for biological samples.=20
> SEM microscopes used to cost over one hundred thousand dollars, 60.000
> is a=
> bargain.
>
> Fabio W.
>
> --- Em *ter, 25/11/08, Peter Egerton /<[log in to unmask]>/* escreveu:
>
>     De: Peter Egerton <[log in to unmask]>
>     Assunto: Re: [CONCH-L] RES: [CONCH-L] Digital Microscope
>     Para: [log in to unmask]
>     Data: Terça-feira, 25 de Novembro de 2008, 10:30
>
>
>     Well, all I saw was "SEM"! So maybe 60,000 is a good price. Back
>     when I was in university you were lucky if your university owned
>     one. So...saving up ,my pennies now...........
>
>
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