SEM stands for scanning electron microscope. The SEM is a microscope that uses electrons instead of light to form an image. Since their development in the early 1950's, scanning electron microscopes ...

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Last summer I worked at the National High Magnetic Field Lab at FSU using a scanning electron microscope to analyze magnet materials. I enjoy working in the summers with scientists solving problems ...