GIF 2001


The GIF 2001 is a full-featured TEM energy filter providing both EELS and EFTEM capabilities at moderate cost. Its 1K x 1K sensor offers well-balanced performance for both analytical spectroscopy and imaging applications. Its included retractable TV camera provides real-time viewing for making instrument adjustments and setting up experiments.

The GIF 2001 enables the full range of EELS and EFTEM techniques, including elemental point analysis in either TEM or STEM modes, rapid elemental mapping in energy-filtered TEM mode, and systematic line and area scans in STEM spectrum imaging mode (when combined with the STEMPack product) to reveal variations in both the composition and electronic structure of probed specimen areas.

Although an entry-level system, the GIF 2001 also features the self-tuning, aberration-corrected filter optics for which all Gatan energy filter systems are known. The GIF post-column design is ideally suited for high-performance EELS work, especially STEM EELS, and it has yet to be equaled by any other TEM energy filter design in the industry.

Key Features of the GIF 2001 Hardware include:

Advanced electron optics using multipole lenses

1K x 1K pixel MultiScan™ CCD camera with 24 micron pixel size

Second order aberration corrected energy dispersive prism

Third order image aberation correction

Compatible up to 400 keV and with HV TEMs

Fully digital computer contolled PC based system

Complete system specification sheet available upon request (Gatan document 001.01010)

 

 

 

The Gatan Imaging Filter comes with sophisticated software covering all aspects of energy-filtered imaging and energy-loss spectroscopy. A graphical user interface within DigitalMicrograph simplifies the acquisition and processing of filtered and unfiltered images, and powerful EELS software allows complex analysis of energy-loss spectra. Tight integration of the software with the microscope and simple expandability through additional Gatan plug-ins make it a safe investment for the future.

Key Features of the GIF 2001 Software include:

• Point and click operation for EFTEM and EELS

• Automated performance tuning for optimum reproducibility and minimum user interaction

• Tight integration with microscope software

• Automatic exposure optimization

• Rapid automated quantitative EELS analysis

• Spectrum Imaging

 

 

 

 

 

 

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