Volume 27 Number 4 2019 July


Light Microscopy Contents About the Cover Microscopy 101


32 Target Material Selection for Sputter Coating of SEM Samples Rod Heu, Sina Shahbazmohamadi, John Yorston, and Patrick Capeder


Strategic Initiatives


38 The MSA Bold Strategic Initiative Funding Program Jay Jerome


Finalists in the Microscopy Today Micrograph Awards competition. Images are arranged as follows: column 1 is the Published category; columns 2, 3, and 4 comprise the Open (unpublished) category; and column 5 shows finalists in the Video category.


See page 65 where micrograph subjects and submitters are identified.


Pioneers of Microscopy


42 Pioneers in Optics: John S. Billings Eric Clark


Microscopy and Microanalysis Highlights


48 Four-Dimensional Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (4D-STEM): From Scanning Nanodiffraction to Ptychography and Beyond


48 Nanoindentation Properties and Finite Element Analysis of the Rostrum of Cyrtotrachelus buqueti Guer (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)


49 Reflector Selection for the Indexing of Electron Back-Scatter Diffraction Patterns


Departments


7 Editorial 8 Carmichael’s Concise Review


44 Industry News 46 Product News 50 NetNotes


61 Calendar of Meetings 64 Dear Abbe 65 Information about Cover Micrographs


66 Index of Advertisers


12 Software-Based Improvement of Image Information Using Thrombocytes as a Practical Demonstration J. Piper


18 Stimulation and Observation of Leaf Stomata Using a Light Microscope Douglas Clark


24 Quantifying Polymer Deposition on Hair Fibers by Microfluorometry Anthony J. Ribaudo Sr.


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