SEM stands for scanning electron microscope. The SEM is a microscope that uses electrons instead of light to form an image. Since their development in the early 1950's, scanning electron microscopes ...

Oeggerli made images of herbs and spices with a scanning electron microscope, then enhanced ... the heat of compounds called piperines discourages insects from eating the plant.

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The “micro” is because I specialize in shooting very small things using a scanning electron microscope at the School of Life Sciences in Muttenz, Switzerland. “Naut” is because I feel like ...