infocus Magazine
10 Jun 2015
by Dr Richard Paden Hon FRMS

infocus #38 June 2015 The Birth of the Scanning Electron Microscope

Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Launch of the Stereoscan

DOI: 10.22443/rms.inf.1.124

2015 marks 50 years since the launch of the world’s first commercial scanning electron microscope – the Cambridge Instrument Company (CIC) Stereoscan. A name which has almost become a generic title for any SEM. How did this come about and what contributed to this seminal development in the world of microscopy and the evolution of a whole family of related electron optical products?

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