Lieberkühn reflector
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lieberk-hn-reflector-184-1394700
title:
Lieberkühn reflector
text:
A Lieberkühn reflector
(also known as Lieberkühn mirror
or simply Lieberkühn) is an illumination device for incident light illumination (epi-illumination) in light microscopes.
It encircles the objective, with the mirrored surface facing towards the specimen. This allows illuminating an opaque object from the side of the objective, with the light source positioned behind the specimen as in a transmission microscope. The device is named after Johann Nathanael Lieberkühn (1711–1756) who used and p
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description:
Illumination device in light microscopes
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lieberk%C3%BChn_reflector
date created:
2024-08-09T07:42:03Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T03:28:05Z
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