The author’s interest in microwave (MW) processing of biological samples for electron microscopy was initially stimulated by presentations and papers by Dr. Gary Login (Login and Dvorak, 1988 , Login and Dvorak, 1993 , Login and Dvorak, 1994 .) The work of Giberson and Demaree demonstrated that routine MW processing was possible (Giberson and Demaree, 1995 ; Giberson et al., 1997 ; Giberson and Demaree, 1999 ).
