■Foreword

New Era for Morphology

Kiyotaka Toshimori

■Feature Articles: SPM Coming Close to Atoms on Surfaces, Leaving Vacuum-Environments

SPM with Atomic Resolution Achieved in Non-Vacuum Environments

Masahiko Tomitori

Liquid Structured on Solid: Piconewton-Mechanics Revealed by AFM

Hiroshi Onishi

Atomic Resolution FM-AFM Imaging on Solid Surfaces Covered with Thin Water Layers

Toyoko Arai

Atomic-Resolution AFM Imaging in Viscous Ionic Liquid

Takashi Ichii

Potential-Dependent Local Structure of Electric Double Layer at Electrochemical Interfaces Analyzed by Electrochemical Frequency Modulation AFM

Ken-ichi Fukui

■Reviews

3D Visualization of Osteogenic Capillaries in Mineralized Bone Tissue by Integrating Micro-CT with Light Sheet Fluorescence Microscopy Imaging

Ayako Miya, Yukiko Kuroda, Yoshihiro Takeda and Koichi Matsuo

Wonder in SEM Image—Low Energy Electrons and Specimen Charging

Takashi Sekiguchi and Kazuhiro Kumagai

■Lectures

Angle-Resolved STEM-CL Spectromicroscopy: Principles and Applications

Naoki Yamamoto and Hikaru Saito

Observation of Microstructure and Microbial Cells in Marine Sediments

Go-Ichiro Uramoto, Yuki Morono, Katsuyuki Uematsu and Fumio Inagaki

Electron Holography Potential Analysis of Semiconductor Devices

Nobuyuki Ikarashi

■Researches Today

High-Pressure Microscopy for Controlling Microtubule Dynamics

Masayoshi Nishiyama, Kingo Takiguchi and Masahito Hayashi

Development of 1.2 MV Atomic-Resolution Holography Electron Microscope

Takeshi Kawasaki, Yoshio Takahashi, Tetsuya Akashi, Toshiaki Tanigaki, Toshio Onai, Keigo Kasuya, Tadao Furutsu, Hiroyuki Shinada and Nobuyuki Osakabe

Survey about How Academic Researchers Acquired Scientific Digital Image Manipulation Skills

Kenichiro Masubuchi

Phase Plate STEM

Hiroki Minoda

■From Microscopy: Editor’s Choice Articles

■Request from the Microscopy Editors

■Staff Commentary

Masahiko Tomitori