[Amen] wanted to inspect ICs on the PCBs for suitability for reuse, so he bought a metallurgical microscope that illuminates from above rather than below, since it normally looks at opaque things.

Metallurgical microscopes are specially-designed microscopes that are used for metallurgical evaluation, including the assessment of metals, ceramics and other materials. Specialty uses of these ...

Mark Plichta graduated with high honors from Michigan Tech with a Bachelor’s Degree in Metallurgical Engineering in 1974 ... While there he developed many courses in the areas of phase transformations ...

Metallurgical and materials science studies can considerably benefit from directly observing specimen heating within the scanning electron microscope. Gatan’s Murano TM heating stage makes it possible ...