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MICRO-STRUCTURE ANALYSIS OF PLANT TISSUES - Lublin

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In 1830, Lister published the theoretical foundations for building achromatic<br />

lenses. His ideas were then employed by other microscope designers [3,14].<br />

Moreover, Giovanni B. Amici discovered a method for the elimination<br />

of spherical aberration through the application of a suitable combination of lenses.<br />

The two discoveries permitted the building of multi-lens objective lenses<br />

and condensers which gave greater magnification ratios while retaining high<br />

optical correctness level. In 1827, Amici invented the immersion lens [12,14].<br />

Also in 1872 the German physicist, Ernst Abbe, equipped the microscope with<br />

a lamp [13]. At the beginning pf the 20 th century the optical microscope was<br />

capable of magnification ratios of about x2000. In 1931, a team of German<br />

physicists headed by Ernst Rusk (who was awarded the Nobel Prize for that work,<br />

in 1986), designed the electron microscope, a usable version of which was built<br />

in 1938 by the Siemens company. The microscope permits magnification ratios<br />

of the order of x250,000. In 1942, C. Magnan (France) invented so-called proton<br />

microscope, the theoretical capabilities of which reach to the level of x5000,000<br />

magnification ratio; in practice, however, its performance is no better than that<br />

of the electron microscope. In 1956, the American Ervin W. Mueller designed<br />

an ion microscope for examination of the structure of metallic blades, permitting<br />

magnification ratios of the order of several million. In 1962, E.N. Leith<br />

and J. Upatnieks designed and built a lens-less holographic optical microscope [3,<br />

6, 12, 13, 14].<br />

In spite of the tremendous progress in the field of microscopy, work<br />

is continued on better still and more modern microscope designs, yielding better<br />

and better effects of observation.<br />

2.1.1. Principle of optical microscope<br />

The structure of the optical microscope utilizes two systems – the optical<br />

system, used for illumination of the object observed and for image magnification,<br />

and the mechanical system, the function of which is to ensure correct positioning<br />

of the particular components of the optical system. The key aspect is stability,<br />

mutual parallelism and concentricity of the optical system components.<br />

Fig. 2.4 presents the structure of the optical microscope.<br />

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