Our Microscopes
Our facility hosts a range of electron microscopes. From easy-to-use fast-acquisition table top machines, to high-end world-leading advanced microscopes, we have the equipment available to meet almost any electron microscopy need.
Scanning Electron Microscopes
Phenom Pro X
Our most accessible user friendly microscope, this desktop SEM provides imaging (~30 nm resolution) and elemental composition mapping using EDX (~100 nm) of surfaces.
Zeiss Gemini 450
One of our Geoscience focused machines, the Gemini is a variable pressure SEM allowing high-resolution imaging of sample topology including large area samples. Equipped with EDX, EBSD, cryo-stage, panchromatic and wavelength-filtered CL.
Zeiss Evo 15
The Evo is an environmental SEM dedicated to imaging in the presence of low pressures of gas or humidity, primarily used for geoscience research. It is equipped with Peltier cooling stage and EDX detector.
Helios Nanolab G3
The Helios Nanolab is our most advanced SEM. The electron beam voltage can be varied between 5-30 kV for high resolution imaging of surfaces down to 2 nm. It is equipped with EBSD, CL and EDX detectors as well as a cryo specimen stage. The Helios is particularly valuable for its focused ion beam (FIB) which enables samples to be cut in situ, allowing for FIB tomography, and the cutting of FIB lamella as a TEM sample preparation method.
Aquilos
The Aquilos is a combination between a cryo-SEM, a FIB, and a fluorescence light microscope. It is a powerful tool for preparing tomography samples under cryogenic conditions and performing detailed multi-technique studies of life science samples.
Transmission Electron Microscopes
Technai 20
Our longest serving microscope, the Techai 20 may no longer be state of the art but its value and power should not be underestimated. Although it is primarily used for sample screening and microscopist training purposes, the T20 contributed to 7 publications last year and remains an ideal first imaging step.
Talos L120C
The Talos L120C (S)TEM is a workhorse microscope. Extremely user friendly, with fast sample exchange, a good camera and a cryobox, it is the ideal microscope for rapid sample screening in both materials science and life sciences.
Talos F200X
The Talos F200X is the go to microscope for (S)TEM EDX and in situ techniques in the field of materials science. With a 200 kV high brightness FEG and a superX EDX detector it can produce rapid STEM EDX maps. It is also associated with liquid and gas cell setups allowing reactions to be studied on the nanoscale in real time.
Spectra 300
The Spectra 300 is one of the best (S)TEMs in the world, and the star player of the team of microscopes in our facility. The Spectra is double aberration corrected and monochromated with variable acceleration voltage (30-300 kV). The Gatan continuum filter enables UHR EELS mapping of elements, oxidation states, plasmons and band gaps. In STEM mode (~50 pm) it is also capable of EDX, 4DSTEM, ptychography, iDPC. In TEM mode (~50 pm), the K3 camera allows ultra fast acquisition of low dose images making it ideal for in situ and beam sensitive samples.
Talos Arctica
Our resident Cryo TEM, the Arctica operates at 200 kV and is equipped with a Gatan K2 direct-detection camera and an autoloader system. This microscope is dedicated to high-resolution imaging and electron tomography under cryo conditions, for 3D reconstructions of cells and protein complexes.
Light Microscopes
Corrsight
The Corrsight is a fluorescence light microscope which enables the correlation of light microscopy images and electron microscopy techniques.
Leica Thunder
The Leica Thunder is a fluorescence microscope used to image cells with markers under cryo conditions. It is able to perform computational clearing, thus improving the resolution when compared to standard light microscopes.
What we do Find out more about what kind of research is being done with our microscopes here.
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