It’s ‘just’ a light source… How hard can it be?
Why developing illumination for an OEM instrument involves rather more than choosing a bright LED, attaching a lens and pointing it in the right direction…
The Amazing Journey of a Fluorescence Photon
What actually happens between switching on the light and seeing an image? From LED illumination to fluorescence image, it’s a surprisingly busy day for a photon…
A Day in the Lab: Metal Halide vs LED Illumination
A day in the lab with metal halide versus LED illumination, from warm-up delays and heat to bulb changes, downtime and disposal
How LED Illumination Changed Slide Scanning
How LED illumination has helped make slide scanning faster, more consistent and better suited to modern multiplexed digital pathology
One Of The Most Incredible Things Humans Can Manufacture
Follow a silicon wafer through months of lasers, plasma, microscopic layering and LED inspection to see how one of humanity’s most ridiculous manufacturing feats becomes a working semiconductor.
If You Think This Heatwave Is Bad, Try Being a Live Cell Under a Microscope…
Because your cell samples are delicate little things, and your light source absolutely does not need to bring the weather indoors
How to maintain a CoolLED LED Illumination System
A guide to maintaining your CoolLED LED illumination system… otherwise known as switching it on and ‘getting on with your day’
Case Study: How to stay ahead of the mercury bulb phase-out
How the University of Aberdeen moved from mercury lamps to LED illumination, and what other microscopy facilities can learn from their journey
Optogenetics: when neuroscience discovered the light switch
A look at how optogenetics helps neuroscience switch things on and off, and makes the brain seem slightly less impossible
LED Illumination for Advanced Packaging Inspection
A look at how controlled LED Illumination helps advanced packaging and inspection systems see the tiny details that actually matter
Mercury Bulb Phase-Out: A Surprisingly Practical Survival Guide
A look at how lab and facility managers can prepare for the mercury and metal halide bulb phase-out using CoolLED’s No More Mercury tools and resources
Beyond the Visible: Expanding the Possibilities of LED Illumination
Visible light has had a very good run, but longer wavelengths are helping imaging systems reveal what the human eye politely ignores…
