Conferences Laser 55 and the QUANTA 650 FEG electron microscope

We feature an interview with Professor Pavel Zemánek and Dr. Bohdan Růžička from the Institute of Scientific Instruments of the CAS on the occasion of the conference LASER55, which was organized in cooperation with the Institute of Physics of the CAS. Leading Czech scientists and experts from public and private sector met on October 21–23, 2015 in Třešť to discuss interdisplinary cooperation in laser science.
This issue also brings an interview with Dr. Vilém Neděla, the head of Environmental Electron Microscopy of the Institute of Scientific Instruments of the CAS on the Quanta 650 FEG scanning electron microscope (SEM), which is used for high-resolution imaging and semi-quantitative X-ray microanalysis of both conductive and non-conductive specimens at nanometer resolution.