A new series of sterile, optical quality, glass bottom dishes which provide exceptional imaging quality for many applications requiring the use of inverted microscopes.

• Wide optical range of transmission- UV, IV, and IR (300 nm to 2500 nm)
• Suitable for laser confocal microscopy, two or multi photon confocal microscopy, DIC and polaraized microscopy, high resolution imaging, and infrared imaging
• Non-cytotoxic, non-pyrogenic and sterile until opened
• Dish diameters: 35 and 50 mm, with internal gass well diameter of 12, 22, 30, and 40 mm
• Each dish has a flat (0.17mm thick) optical quality glass bottom
• Production is carried on in a Class 10,000 clean room, certified under EN46001, EN46002, ISO9001 and ISO9002
• All dishes are gamma irradiated (EN552) and sterile

Conventional plastic or glass petri dishes and chambers limit the use of the inverted microscope for many applications because the thick plastic or glass bottom requires a long working distance objetive available only in lower magnifications. Moreover, plastic dishes cannot be used for DIC or any polarization microscopes due to their inherent birefriengence.

EMS New Glass Bottom Dishes eliminate these problems, making them ideal for applications such as: patch clamp recordings where flourescent-tagged (GFP) receptors can be identified for selective study; and many other fluorescent microscopy applications, which require low background scattering of light and reduce intrinsic "auto" fluorescence that occurs when using standard plastic dishes.

Furthermore, the glass bottom is designed flush with the whole base of the dish, therefore allowing direct contact between the entire glass surface and the warming stage. This eliminates any air gaps that may otherwise exist between the glass dish and the warming stage and hence optimize heat transfer, allowing homogenerous heating and cooling of the glass bottom.

Flat (0.17 mm thick) optical quality glass bottom allows the use of a much shorter working distance immersion objective with larger numerical aperture (NA) objectives and higher magnification (up to 100x)

Applications include STEM Cell Research, Cell growth cycle monitoring, cell culture, Green fluorescent protein, phenotyping and other complex Genetic Research.