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

Spectra Ultra Scanning Transmission electron microscope

Shize Yang

Director

Spectra Ultra Scanning Transmission electron microscope

Spectra Ultra Scanning Transmission electron microscope will start working soon.
Here is a list of check points for your progress towards TEM training.
Novice User
1 Storage of sample in vacuum desiccator, store holder in vacuum
2 Plasma cleaning of TEM holder (samples)
3 Loading/unloading sample on to Single Tilt TFS Holder
4 Loading/unloading sample onto DT TFS holder
5 Load holder into microscope (switch holder pin type on the TEM stage)
Autonomous User
6 Basic TEM mode operation (Flu screen camera)
7 Basic Diffraction mode operation (Flu screen camera)
8 TEM imaging using (Ceta Camera)
9 Basic STEM imaging and Velox EDX mapping (TFS-HAADF, Ultra-X)
Advanced User
10 Advanced STEM imaging and aberration tuning (TFS-HAADF, software)
11 EELS operation (Gatan continuum, K3 camera)
12 4D-STEM (EMPAD, Ceta Camera), iDPC
13 Holography
14 Using Ceta Camera for diffraction measurement
15 Tomography
16 In-situ experiment


 

Availability differs per offering

Resources

Resources

Gallery

tem LN2

Liquid nitrogen filling for Spectra Ultra TEM microscope