Instrument/equipment Core/facility: Aberration-Corrected Electron Microscopy (ACEM) Core

Spectra Ultra Scanning Tranmission electron microscope

Shize Yang

Director

Spectra Ultra Scanning Tranmission electron microscope

Spectra Ultra Scanning Transmission electron microscope will start working soon.
Please get familiar with the following before working on the new TEM:
Basic Training
1 Loading samples on single tilt holder (Pass/Fail)
2 Loading samples onto double-tilt FEI holder (Pass/Fail)
3 Use 1020 Plasma Cleaner to clean up TEM holders (Pass/Fail)
4 Load TEM holders onto TEM microscope (Pass/Fail/Attention)
5 Basic alignment of apertures (Condenser, SA, Objective) (Pass/Fail)
6 Basic alignment of lens (Condenser, Objective, diffraction) (Pass/Fail)
7 Sample preparation (cleaning, baking, plasma etc) (Pass/Fail)
Intermediate Training
1 Use double-tilt holder to go to zone of crystal (Si/SrTiO3) (Pass/Fail)
2 Record high resolution STEM images on the zone (Pass/Fail)
3 Record high resolution TEM images on the zone (Pass/Fail)
4 Record (SA) diffraction images on the zone (Pass/Fail)
5 Record dark field TEM images (Pass/Fail)
6 Know how to set up specific beam conditions (200 kV/120 kV) (Apertures) (Pass/Fail)
7 Perform STEM EDS mapping (Pass/Fail)
8 Perform EELS measurement
9 Perform 4D-STEM data collection
10 Perform Tomography data collection

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Spectra Ultra in crates at a warehouse

01/23/2025, 
Spectra Ultra in crates at a warehouse