Facilities
Electron Microscope Facilities
MCEM supports four transmission electron microscopes, three scanning electron microscopes and a dual beam focussed ion beam (FIB) microscope, as well as a broad range of instrumentation for sample preparation and data analysis.
These microscopes are housed in an award-winning building designed to provide exceptional mechanical, thermal and electro-magnetic stability to optimise instrument performance. This is one of the most stable such buildings worldwide.
Transmission electron microscopes
Scanning electron microscopes/Dual beam focused ion beam (FIB) microscope
Specimen preparation equipment
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Software
Software | Computer platform |
Amira V5, several copies | PC |
Bruker Esprit EDS X-ray analysis software V1.9 and V2.1 (on microscopes and multiple offline copies) | PC |
CrystalMaker V10, CrystalDiffract V6, SingleCrystal V3 (multiple copies) | PC, Apple |
EDAX Genesis EDS X-ray analysis/TSL OIM EBSD Suite (on microscope and multiple offline copies) | PC |
EDAX TEAM EDS X-ray analysis and EBSD software (on microscope and offline copy) | PC |
FEI TEM Imaging & Analysis software (TIA) | PC |
Gatan Digital Micrograph V1, V2 and V3 (on microscopes and multiple offline copies) | PC, Apple |
HKL Channel 5 EBSD Suite (on microscope and multiple offline copies) | PC |
HREM Software: GPA; SmartAlign; MSA; FFT-Multislice Simulation Suite; Template matching Module | PC |
Image and diffraction pattern simulation programs based on Multislice and Bloch wave methods (in-house)* | PC , Linux |
Image J | PC |
JEMS V4.6, multiple copies | PC |
Monte Carlo simulation of electron trajectories and X-ray production (Casino, Win-Xray and in-house) | PC |
Oxford AZtec EDS X-ray analysis software & EBSD software V3.3 (on microscope and multiple offline copies) | PC |
PDF4 2018 ICDD Crystal Database | PC |
* In-house software for elastic and inelastic electron scattering calculations for the interpretation of CBED, STEM, Phase Contrast images, EELS and EDX based on Multislice and Bloch Wave algorithms.