Geekbumps of the week
Jun 3rd 2004Wallabynerd alert
Total internal reflectance: Depth resolution because the evanescent wave disappears after a couple hundred nanometers. (Or so.) Cooool.
Fluorescence microscopy: See only the stuff you’ve labeled, ’cause that’s what glows brightly.
TIR + FM = TIRFM.
And now make it scanning TIRFM … just ’cause scanning’s cooler still.
I really did get goosebumps. I really am a geek.
If you’re curious, the new user picture is an image of “darkness” from an air-cooled intensified CCD camera (5 minute exposure, so the actual background is pretty low.)