Question: how is electronic microscopes made?

Jamie Gallagher answered on 13 Jun 2011:

Hi,
I guess you mean electron microscopes- electronic ones are just normal ones like a powerful camera. Electron ones are the fancy ones!
Hmm there are a few different kinds. The best kind look a bit like a normal microscope. Instead of shining light into them you fire a beam of electrons. Fast electrons. Lenses don’t work for electrons, they are only good for bending light so inside we have lots of magnets. These work just like invisible lenses. You can see how this happens by holding a magnet on the screen of an old tv. DO NOT PUT A MAGNET ON A TV. (But i did, because it was mine to break) what you see is that new colours form on the screen because the electrons bend because of the magnet. So that’s it really, electron beam instead of a light beam and magnets instead of lenses.

Remeber not to try it. I was a little terror who made all the experimental mistake so you don’t have to! We’d both get in trouble.