Simultaneous EELS and EDS spectrum image

While advanced hardware can help any project, it was the vision, ingenuity and perseverance of the research team that made this remarkable achievement possible. Advanced publication is available online http://xlink.rsc.org/?doi=C4NR04553J. Nanoscale voxel spectroscopy by simultaneous EELS and EDS tomography; Haberfehlner, Orthacker, Albu, Lib and Kothleitner; Nanoscale, 2014, Advance Article

Graz and Leoben reconstruct spectral voxels from simultaneous EELS and EDS spectrum image tomography

Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) has long been limited to supplying only projections of three-dimensional objects limiting the information that can be obtained to two dimensions.  Tilt series tomography provides 3D information, but for compositional tomography, the information is only qualitative.

Interplanetary dust particle HAADF

Data courtesy of Dr. Ilke Arslan of Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California and Dr. John P. Bradley of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California.

Interplanetary dust particle. STEM tilt series acquired with a 805 BF/ADF detector and 806 HAADF detector from -61° to 68°.

Interplanetary dust particle BF

Data courtesy of Dr. Ilke Arslan of Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California and Dr. John P. Bradley of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California

Interplanetary dust particle. STEM tilt series acquired with a 805 BF/ADF detector and 806 HAADF detector from -61º to 68º.

In-situ nano-compression of a SiO2 glass nanoparticle

Courtesy of Zhiwei Shan at CAMP-Nano at Xi’an Jiaotong University, China.

A 500 nm amorphous SiO2 glass particle (top of the image) is plastically deformed into a pancake geometry in a compression test of Hysitron Picoindenter (PI95). The loading rate of 10 nm/s was generated by driving a flat diamond punch (lower left corner). Imaged with an Orius® 830 camera. Movie was captured by in-situ video software.

High tilt liquid nitrogen cryo-transfer tomography holder training, model 914

The 914 high tilt liquid nitrogen cryo -ransfer tomography holder is designed for low temperature transfer and subsequent tomographic recording of electron beam sensitive, frozen hydrated specimens in the TEM. Tilt ranges and compatibility of specimen holders vary according to the TEM manufacturer, model, pole piece gap, and the presence of in-gap accessories.

626 Single tilt liquid nitrogen cryo-transfer holder

The 626 single tilt liquid nitrogen cryo-transfer holder is designed for low temperature transfer and subsequent recording of electron beam sensitive, frozen hydrated specimens in the TEM. Tilt ranges and compatibility of specimen holders vary according to the TEM manufacturer, model, pole piece gap, and the presence of in-gap accessories.

Highly reproducible, high resolution Z sectioning

Data courtesy of Lucy Collinson, Cancer Research UK.

The high precision microtome allows section thicknesses to be cut at 15 nm, this allows isotropic resolution without the need to use deconvolution and multi-kV imaging methods, which can damage the same and reduce resolution.

Facet development during platinum nanocube growth

Hong-Gang Liao, H. G.; Zherebetskyy, D.; Xin, H.; Czarnik, C.; Ercius, P.; Elmlund, H.; Pan, M.; Wang, L. W.; Haimei Zheng, H.

Movie recorded on a transmission electron microscope using the K2 IS camera shows facet development during the growth of a platinum nanocube.

Science (Vol. 345 no. 6199 pp. 916-919 DOI: 10.1126/science.1253149)

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