Section outline

    • What types of microscopies will we discuss about ?
    • Length scales and spatial resolution limits
    • Why Optical Microscopy is important vs Electron Microscopy?
    • Micro-spectrometry techniques: Raman + InfraRed - why are them important ?
    • Micro and nano particle manipulation without mechanical contact; how and why?
    • Force spectroscopy - application to biomedicine
    • SUMMARY of the COURSE !
    • Review of some important concepts in Optics: light as wave, reflection and refraction, diffraction and interference, photoelectric effect